As we approach America’s 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, many people will want to hit the road. In 2026, travelers can celebrate by visiting one of the many sites ...

Funds will support interior rehabilitation, improve educational resources, and enhance environmental resilience at the site. This project is part of a larger state initiative to restore Revolutionary ...

GAFFNEY, S.C. (WSPA) — History was brought to life in Gaffney over the weekend as an organization marked the anniversary of a colonial mission during the American Revolution with live reenactments.

Author Randall Gabrielan has dug up the wild tales of bright and dark figures in his new book, "Monmouth County Revolutionary War Sites." For example, Joshua Huddy led a decidedly checkered life until ...

ALBANY (AP) — Kent Keyser was surprised to learn a historian at a Revolutionary War battle site knows the name of his ancestor, a private from Virginia who participated in a daring nighttime attack.

Siege of Yorktown. General Rochambeau and general Washington give last orders before an attack, October 1781. Auguste Couder (1789–1873). Artist Auguste Couder, 1836 (Photo by Pierce Archive ...

How the American Revolution opened the Mississippi frontier, drew war veterans west, and set in motion the founding and early ...

When Ken Burns started making his series on the American Revolution nearly a decade ago, he knew one of his biggest challenges would be casting George Washington. The renowned documentarian has worked ...

Documentary maker Ken Burns doesn’t think today’s polarized politics are anything new, especially for a country that, as he sees it, already had two civil wars — the American Revolution of 1776 and ...

From Camden and Cherry Hill to Trenton and the Jersey Shore, what about life in New Jersey do you want WHYY News to cover? Let us know. Americans, and Philadelphians in particular, might think they ...

Historian Rick Atkinson stated in a recent talk that Americans tend to view the American Revolution through a kind of rosy haze. In Fate of the Day: The American War for Independence, Atkinson lays ...