In June of 1776, the colonists in rebellion against Great Britain were so convinced that the French Canadians would want to ...

There’s also 18-pound solid shot, grape shot and sliding bar shot. A real “prize” is the sword of British General Cornwallis, presented to Washington at the surrender at Yorktown, Virginia.

Robert Bryant was born on April 11, 1755, to parents Thomas Bryant and Mary Polly Martin in Prince Edward County Virginia. The colonists were preparing for war with England in ...

“General Washington and Thomas Jefferson both said that the Battle of Kings Mountain was the turning point of the Revolutionary War,” according to playwright/author Robert Inman. “That’s the reason we ...

Nolan Dahm, the exhibits manager at the Charlotte Museum of History, recently took time to explain the origin of the ...

The Battle at Yorktown signaled the end of the war between the American Colonies and the mother country of Britain. John Hankins was a participant in the battle and witnessed ...

The Great Wagon Road brought European colonists from Philadelphia to the southeast and helped give birth to a nation. In his ...

Shutterstock The Yorktown Siege That Won Independence The rolling fields of Yorktown Battlefield in Virginia hold the ...

Shutterstock Greene’s Great Escape Across the Dan River At Guilford Courthouse National Military Park in North Carolina ...

Federal Judge Sarah T Hughes, a Baltimore native and Goucher graduate, swore in Lyndon B. Johnson as the 36th president of ...

Thomas Carney had to wait 250 years, but he’s finally getting his monument. Carney, one of the few Black soldiers to hold the ...

Turn your heart and mind toward America as we approach its semiquincentennial.