Ken Burns Returns to PBS with New Documentary 'The American Revolution' An era-appropriate melody plays as photographs move slowly across the screen and a voice reads heartfelt letters written...
'America's First Veterans': Historians Need Your Help Identifying the Remains of Revolutionary War Troops Forensics labs need Americans with 18th-century ancestral ties to the states of Maryland, Delaware or North Carolina to come...
How a Prussian Baron Helped the Colonists Win the American Revolution In a mere two months, soldiers learned how to load and fire a musket quicker and more efficiently, and were introduced to the...
US Navy Battle Flags: A Visual Guide The Navy's tradition of flying battle flags is as old as America itself. Here's an (incomplete) guide to the service's best...
Archeologists Find Musket Balls Fired During One of the First Battles in the Revolutionary War Nearly 250 years ago, hundreds of militiamen lined a hillside in Massachusetts and started firing a barrage of musket balls...
The National Archives Needs Your Help Transcribing Revolutionary War Records More than 83,000 pension records from the Revolutionary War require preservation ahead of commemorations of the conflict's...
The History of the US Army's Birthday June 14 should be considered one of the most patriotic days in America. Not only is it Flag Day, celebrating the adoption of...
Michael Douglas' Benjamin Franklin Brings France Into the American Revolution in a New Apple TV+ Series This new dramatization of Franklin's most important diplomatic magnum opus is based on Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer...
The 11 Finalists for the First-Ever American Battlefield Trust Book Prize for History The American Battlefield Trust Book Prize for History is like March Madness for the best books on military history.
A Medical Mystery Almost as Old as America: What Actually Killed George Washington? Anecdotal evidence and empirical data show that Americans are infatuated with true crime, from cold-case television shows to...
Air Force Unveils New Policies on Shaving, Nail Polish, Hair Length in Leaked Memos Medical shaving waivers for thousands of airmen and Space Force Guardians will be reset and reevaluated, according to new...
Trump Orders Pentagon Policy Saying Transgender Troops Are 'Not Consistent' with Military Ideals The order, which follows actions Trump took last week to lay the groundwork for it, gives the Pentagon 30 days to report back...
White House Funding Freeze Stokes Uncertainty for Military Families as Raft of Programs Under Review An announcement late Monday from the Office of Management and Budget panicked military family members who feared losing...
VA Says 44 Programs Will Continue After Review Required by Trump Federal Funding Freeze In a statement released late Tuesday, department officials said all programs would continue uninterrupted.
'No One Knows Who He Is': Trump's Pick for Army Secretary Faces Confirmation Hearing The relatively obscure financier and political adviser, who is also a veteran, is set to lead the Pentagon's largest branch...