The lack of pensions for Revolutionary War veterans was a national shame so profound that President James Monroe included it ...

Weekend-long event brings re-enactment hobbyists from Canada and the U.S. together to commemorate a key battle in the War of ...

Despite the muskets, bayonets and firing cannons, organizers of the annual Battle of Stoney Creek re-enactment — which takes ...

In every battle fought since the United States’ founding, U.S. Army troops have relied on their issue longarms, from muskets ...

American colonists who aligned with the British lost their lands, their reputations and sometimes even their lives ...

Much of Mackinac Island was designated as a national park in 1875, but it proved to be too expensive for the government to maintain, so it was transferred to the State of Michigan in 1895 ...

The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission violated federal maritime code, which says 75% of a Coast Guard ship's crew ...

From crumbling fortresses and mountain battlefields to rusty gun emplacements and skeletal ships, there are ghostly reminders ...

when voyageurs cleaned deer skins while Indigenous warriors and British solders fended off American invaders. The 15 th annual ‘Essex County in the War of 1812’ event in Lakeshore saw costumed ...

A British Army visit to America has gone with a bang – as troops trained with U.S. tank forces. Over a dozen soldiers of the Royal Wessex Yeomanry (RWxY) joined American National Guard members ...

In August 1814, amid the War of 1812, British troops burned the Executive Mansion, the Capitol — including the library — and other public buildings in Washington. The second-ever Librarian of ...

Nineteen fifty-six was a fitting year for the formal opening of Allen County’s new museum, the Lima News wrote, explaining that it marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of James Pillars, whose ...