Among those Continental Army soldiers were two Dorchester brothers — Isaac and James Davenport. While Isaac died in the Sept. 1778 battle, James served through the end of the war and returned to ...

CARLISLE, Pennsylvania — Cradled in the Cumberland Valley, just west of the Susquehanna, and flanked by the Blue Mountain range to the north and the northernmost tip of the Blue Ridge Mountains to the ...

Cannons played a small but notable role in the seminal August 16, 1777 Battle of Bennington. Made in England, the guns and ...

Defeated in New York and pursued by redcoats, a beleaguered continental army triumphed at Trenton—and revived the ...

A Dutch Colonial home, just one of a handful of pre-Revolutionary War houses left in New York City, has been vacant and ...

Memorial Day was first established in the aftermath of the Civil War, but has become a day to mark all those who died serving ...

Some of the fiercest battles took place in South Carolina, but its part in the fight for independence is often overlooked.

Known as the semiquincentennial, the celebration includes fireworks, walking tours, block parties and a slew of Liberty Bell replicas to honor the city's past. But the Philadelphia of 1776 was much ...

A decisive American victory at Saratoga persuaded Britain’s old enemy France to enter the war on the revolutionary side.

Life often calls on us to be heroes, sometimes in small ways, sometimes in grand ways. A hero is a person admired for courage ...

Newcomers Emmanuel Macchia and Valentin Campagne play a farm boy and a tailor's son who find romantic reprieve at the Belgian front during World War I.

Explore Revolutionary War battlefields in the Northeast to honor the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence ...