From the first shots at Lexington and Concord in 1775 to Cornwallis’s surrender at Yorktown in 1781, the American Revolutionary War reshaped the course of history. Using Google Earth, this video ...

A centuries-old “witness tree” that stood through a Revolutionary War battle in South Carolina is getting some much-needed care to help preserve it for generations to come. The 45-foot-tall live oak ...

Units in the "American Revolutionary War" wargame maneuver across a 2-D hex-grid map of eastern North America. (Screenshot/Wargame Design Studio) Shrouded in myth and pride, the conception of the ...

The remains of Private John Pumphrey, a teenage soldier from Maryland who fought in the Revolutionary War, have been identified after 246 years, thanks to forensic scientists and genealogists.

After 246 years, Pvt. John Pumphrey is unknown no more. Through DNA testing and old-fashioned sleuthing, the Maryland teenager who died in one of the last big battles of the American Revolution can ...

The 250th anniversary of America arrives as historians continue to confront the full, complicated truth of the American Revolution and the Black soldiers, spies and petitioners whose stories have ...

Many historians have recently seen it as a tame, even disappointing affair. But in the Trump era, the old question of its radicalism is taking on a fresh charge. By Jennifer Schuessler The Declaration ...

The future king of Britain descends from American patriots who fought against the crown he is destined to inherit, according to a new book tracing Prince William's family tree. In "American Crown," ...

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Today many people across the country are celebrating 250 years of American Independence. From the fort that was burned in what many believe was the first military action of the war in North Carolina ...

At least 500 of Connecticut’s estimated 35,000 soldiers serving in the Revolutionary War were Black, according to military records. One of these men, forcibly taken from either Africa or South America ...