Wikimedia Commons/Not found Tun Tavern On November 10, 1775, the Continental Congress commissioned Samuel Nicholas to raise ...

Historians and researchers at Fort Ligonier believe they have pinpointed the location of a “friendly fire” incident.

Throughout this week, Washington was in regular contact with John Trumbull, John Hancock, and the Continental Congress. This was primarily a time of organization and preparation for more fighting to ...

As the country counts down to its semiquincentennial next year, historians in New York’s North Country are taking another ...

The exhibit, called "Washington's Headquarters and the Memory of the American Revolution," highlights the home's "pivotal role in the Revolution, from its time as George Washington’s headquarters ...

Before there was a nation, there was the Army. The United States Army began on June 14, 1775, as the Continental Congress ...

With the governor having fled, the Governor’s Palace is ransacked and the governor’s property sold at auction.

William Thompson deserves plaudits as one of many whose early service led to the signing of the Declaration of Independence in July of 1776.

Four years of digging for artifacts in the Ligonier area have shed new light on a little-known “friendly fire” incident in ...

William Thompson, a man rarely if ever mentioned in American history books, became the first commissioned colonel in the ...

President Abraham Lincoln, with young son Tad and Senator Charles Sumner, salutes a detachment of African-American Union troops in Richmond, Virginia at the end of the American Civil War. Published in ...

The festival includes Revolutionary-era military encampments, musters, and re-enactments, as well as demonstrations of ...