Philippine revolutionaries in Northern Mindanao surrender to American forces on Mar. 27, 1901, four days after General ...

The Hudson River and Long Island Sound wrapped around Westchester County's borders like tentacles, ready to fill with the British king’s sails and soldiers to squelch rebellion. It was late summer ...

Somerset County was a central hub for the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. General George Washington established two major encampments in the county and planned strategy from local sites ...

The Revolutionary War became replete with accounts of riders on horseback, escaping the British, warning Patriot soldiers and civilians, rousing others to spread a message. Or just delivering some ...

From Civil War sheet music to Vietnam radio and Iraq-era digital media, the entertainment that became morale equipment. War has always had a soundtrack. It has also had a bedside table. In every major ...

As the United States approaches the 250th anniversary of its founding, two works offer valuable, fresh views of the American Revolution. Burns’s 12-hour film sweeps across the long struggle with the ...

Anyone who has studied the American Revolution knows that some of the most important battles took place in New Jersey. Washington crossed the Delaware River on Christmas night 1776 for a sneak attack ...

“The greatest part of those that have enlisted are free Negroes [and] Mulattoes,” a Maryland recruitment officer reported in 1780. The statement, preserved in the Archives of Maryland, points to a ...

Peter Salem was a formerly enslaved man who was freed to fight in the American Revolutionary War. He is credited by many with fatally shooting British Major John Pitcairn during the Battle of Bunker ...

Perhaps the least commented upon feature of the dystopian Trump banners adorning parts of Washington D.C. is the red, white, and blue number—“250”—emblazoned just beneath the president’s ...

Any discussion of films and TV series about the American Revolution has to start with a caveat. Historical movies have been around for as long as movies themselves, but films and TV series about the ...