After 200 years as a family heirloom, a military decoration awarded to Isaac Van Wart, who helped capture a British spy and save West Point, has been given to New York State.

Text and context have a special relationship in historically based dramas. What we bring to the theater -- what we know, or think we know -- can matter as much as what transpires on stage. When we ...

Benedict Arnold achieved infamy for what he tried to do 231 years ago this week, ... Major John Andre of the British Army, ... Andre was hanged. Arnold escaped to England with his wife and children.

American officer Benedict Arnold met in secret with British Major John Andre on Sept. 21, 1780, with a plot to trade the American stronghold at West Point for cash amid the American Revolution.

Boot Monument commemorating Benedict Arnold's leg wound during the capturing of the Breymann Redoubt at Saratoga National Historical Park on June 16, 2016, in Stillwater, N.Y. (John Carl D ...

Software identified at-risk students, who were given extra help. Also, New London, Conn., hasn’t forgotten the traitor Benedict Arnold, 242 years later. By James Barron Good morning. It’s ...

John Andre, a British spy in the American Revolution, hangs Oct. 2, 1780, after meeting with Benedict Arnold about seizing West Point.

Why Benedict Arnold Turned Traitor Against the American Revolution The story behind the most famous betrayal in U.S. history shows the complicated politics of the nation’s earliest days ...