Deborah Sampson was the first woman to ever enlist in the United States military. She did it by pretending to be a man.

But even though I have a hard time envisioning these historic events occurring in my hometown as it is today, sometimes when ...

Rick Atkinson’s new Revolutionary War history is an unblinking portrait of wonderful nation’s birthing.

In a new book, the Pulitzer Prize winner Greg Grandin tells the history of the hemisphere from south of the border.

New England Minutemen, some dressed for war in their finest clothes and at least one fellow wearing his wedding suit, fought the Revolutionary War’s first battles against British soldiers at ...

The American Philosophical Society's new exhibit for the 250th birthday of America documents daily life in Philadelphia ...

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A new set of stamps honors five pivotal American Revolution battlefields across the Northeast as the US prepares for its ...

By Paul A. Tenkotte, PhD Special to NKyTribune “The public mind has for some time appeared to be interested and alarmed, ...

Britain’s relatively brief occupation of St. Augustine, which ended along with the American Revolution in 1783, has been ...