The first event this weekend depicts the Battle of Trenton, which took place on Dec. 26, 1776, following George Washington’s ...

Ken Burns’s latest PBS series is long on muskets and bayonets, but the history of the American Revolution remains strangely understated.

Bartholomew Carrol was born in 1719 and enlisted in a Revolutionary War Virginia Regiment at age 60, in 1780. He saw battle ...

The Battle of Camden during the Revolutionary War was one of the state’s most brutal. Hundreds of years later, scientists are ...

BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – On March 10, 1783, the last naval battle of the American Revolution was fought off Cape Canaveral, as Captains John Barry and John Green tried to deliver a shipload of ...

Ken Burns on America's origin story: "The most important event since the birth of Christ" The documentary filmmaker, long a chronicler of the American experience, talks about his latest film for PBS, ...

An exhibition at the National Museum of the United States Army tells the stories of soldiers in the American Revolution ...

A global lens is placed on the story of American independence in the exhibition “The American Revolution: A World War,” open June 26 through July 9, 2019, at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of ...

A flag associated with Christian nationalism and seen outside the homes and offices of figures in the highest levels of ...

The magazine’s most-read articles of the year included a deep dive on the Scopes “monkey trial,” an interview with award-winning documentarians and a profile of quintuplets who found fame during the ...

For many colonists, the American Revolution provided the opportunity to continue displacing Native Americans. This book provides an account of the role of Native Americans in the Revolution's outbreak ...

All the renegades who have abandoned the terrain of the class and of the social war, in order to take up positions on the terrain of the war between the armies of the States and nations, seek their ...