Conservationists are implementing preservation measures to extend the life of a rare "witness tree" that dates back to the ...

The 1777 Battle of Navesink has been long forgotten even by many historians, but its harsh reality has been unveiled in an ...

Roughly 246 years after an American Revolutionary War hero was killed by British loyalists near the swamplands of Nissequogue ...

WATERTOWN, New York (WWNY) - A new monument honoring soldiers who fought in the American Revolution and later settled in Jefferson County was unveiled during a ceremony Tuesday night. The project was ...

Ken Burns’ new PBS docuseries The American Revolution is a six-part, 12-hour series that puts troops, camp followers, and commanders back on muddy 18th-century ground. And in an exclusive interview, ...

Historians deal in secular truths. Slavery is an appropriate explanation for the Civil War; God’s will is not. Still, some occurrences are so improbable they can make it hard to believe that we’re ...

American Revolution and the Southern Ohio Genealogical Society collaborated on this beautiful monument on the grounds of the ...

In Ken Burns’s newest documentary, the war for independence was also a civil war. Amid a bitter fight over history, its timing feels urgent. Critic’s Notebook In Ken Burns’s newest documentary, the ...

Lt. Col. Nicolas Anciaux was born in France and joined the French Army at the age of 15; over two decades later, Anciaux arrived in America during the Revolutionary War as a quartermaster and ...

Nestled behind Lawrenceville’s bustling business district, Allegheny Cemetery serves as the final resting place for two dozen ...

Patrick Mantle, an East Rockaway, N.Y., history buff, needs a few good men and women—and even children—to fill the ranks of the Huntington Militia. Mantle isn’t some radical firebrand. He is commander ...