The grand events and oft-told tales of the American Revolution are easy to find among sprawling reverent battlefields and national parks. George Washington's Mount Vernon in Virginia, Independence ...

LEXINGTON, Mass. (AP) — Thousands of people came to Lexington, Massachusetts, just before dawn on Saturday to witness a reenactment of how the American Revolution began 250 years ago, with the blast ...

This in-depth breakdown covers the dramatic rise of the United States as a global power following the 1898 Spanish-American ...

Distinguished American combat officer Benedict Arnold met a British commander in secret with a plot to trade the colonial stronghold at West Point for cash on this day in history, Sept. 21, 1780. The ...

The place and its people. The Gulf Coast ; Payamataha ; Alexander McGillivray ; Oliver Pollock and Margaret O'Brien ; James Bruce and Isabella Chrystie ; Petit Jean ; Amand Broussard -- What to do ...

Members of the Plano chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution, dressed in their Revolutionary War uniforms, served at SMU Community Day, accompanying SMU's exhibit of George Washington's copy of ...

"Washington Crossing the Delaware" painting by Emanuel Leutze, 1851. (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) “From a small spark kindled in America, a flame has arisen. Not to be extinguished.” Cultural ...

There isn't enough evidence for historians to say precisely how many Americans died on the battlefield during the Revolutionary War, but 6,800, the number cited in a study published in 1974, is the ...