A new Ken Burns documentary highlights Rhode Island's significant contributions to the American Revolution. Key figures like ...

This lesson explores the British Army before and during the American Revolutionary War. The lesson, which features historian and author Don Hagist speaking at the Ame ...

When getting new license plates, South Carolina residents can choose — at no additional cost — to brag about the state’s role ...

Ken Burns’ new PBS series, The American Revolution, reframes the founding war as a brutal, chaotic conflict fought on multiple fronts and driven by impossible odds. From fractured command to ...

While George Washington’s army waged war against Britain, Yellow Springs Hospital fought a deadlier enemy: contagious disease.

Ken Burn's "American Revolution" documentary shows that war had profound implications for humanity, notion of equality of all ...

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 ...

The American Revolution will be a war that will pit brother against brother – and birth a nation. The American Revolution will become not just a local war for independence, but a war between great ...

An estimated 6,800 Americans were killed in action, and 17,000 more combatants died from diseases like typhus, typhoid, dysentery, and influenza. The British suffered 24,000 casualties from the war, ...

Editor’s note: Another in a series of occasional stories about York County in the American Revolution, part of the buildup in research and storytelling to the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of ...

Author who researched Washington through letters and diaries says cultural ignorance of founding era is scandalous and scary.

The United States is a relatively young country, speaking in the grander scope of things. That said, it is a […] ...