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 ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will open “The Gunboat Philadelphia Preservation Project” Aug. 22, a new exhibition where visitors can follow the multiyear effort to preserve the ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! George Washington's Mount Vernon hosted a reenactment of a Revolutionary War encampment. In this clip, 64th Regiment surgeon reenactor Gary Barefoot ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! George Washington's Mount Vernon hosted a reenactment of a Revolutionary War encampment. In this clip, 64th Regiment surgeon reenactor Gary Barefoot ...

Author Randall Gabrielan has dug up the wild tales of bright and dark figures in his new book, "Monmouth County Revolutionary War Sites." For example, Joshua Huddy led a decidedly checkered life until ...

“The (residents) allege that they have a ‘specific, personal, and legal interest’ in (Newtown’s Board of Selectmen) decision ‘that would be specially and injuriously affected,'” says an argument by ...

There were plenty of messed-up things about the American Revolution, which was far more complicated than just redcoats versus blue. Here are just a few facts that didn't make it to your history ...

Thomas Carney had to wait 250 years, but he’s finally getting his monument. Carney, one of the few Black soldiers to hold the rank of corporal in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary ...

The plan to fund a monument to honor Black Marylanders who fought in the Revolutionary War has been approved by the state’s Board of Public Works. The Board of Public Works is made up of Governor Wes ...

Maryland officials to vote on using $402,000 for a memorial to Black Revolutionary War soldiers Proposed memorial site would include area where Roger Taney statue once stood Would be first such ...