What started as an effort to clean the gravestones at Amherst’s cemeteries has resulted in a history lesson for a Girl Scout troop and a patriotic project benefiting the town of Amherst and honoring ...

HAYCOCK TWP., Pa.- Before there was a Quakertown (founded in 1801), or even a country officially known as the United States of America (founded in 1776), there was a tavern along a stagecoach route ...

The Canary Islands Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution hosted an America250! patriot marker reveal at Highland Cemetery on Aug. 23. The marker, awarded by the National Society of DAR, ...

John Nash of the 13th Virginia Regiment was killed in what would become Coshocton in 1779 during the American Revolution. His final resting place is unknown, but a ceremonial grave with memorial ...

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump is adding more than military ordnance to the Defense Department, tacking on the secondary nickname of "War Department" to avoid sounding, well, too “defensive.” ...

Aug. 30 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1780, Gen. Benedict Arnold betrayed the United States when he promised secretly to surrender the fort at West Point to the British army. He fled to England ...

We chart the Russian invasion of Ukraine day by day through September 1, 2025, tracking initial assaults, counteroffensives, annexations, missile campaigns, and shifting frontlines. Using clear maps ...

President Donald Trump recently hinted that he may revert the Department of Defense back to the Department of War, an old title dating back to 1789. “It used to be called the Department of War and it ...

Two people are dead and one person is in critical condition after a shooting at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field office in Dallas Wednesday morning, according to ICE. The shooter ...

The Stockbridge-Munsee Mohicans stood on the banks of the Hudson River in the autumn of 1777, armed with flintlock muskets and a fierce loyalty to a cause that wasn’t theirs. The tribe, whose ...