Revolutionary War

In a mere two months, soldiers learned how to load and fire a musket quicker and more efficiently, and were introduced to the...

The Navy's tradition of flying battle flags is as old as America itself. Here's an (incomplete) guide to the service's best...

Nearly 250 years ago, hundreds of militiamen lined a hillside in Massachusetts and started firing a barrage of musket balls...

More than 83,000 pension records from the Revolutionary War require preservation ahead of commemorations of the conflict's...

June 14 should be considered one of the most patriotic days in America. Not only is it Flag Day, celebrating the adoption of...

This new dramatization of Franklin's most important diplomatic magnum opus is based on Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer...

The American Battlefield Trust Book Prize for History is like March Madness for the best books on military history.

Anecdotal evidence and empirical data show that Americans are infatuated with true crime, from cold-case television shows to...

Most of the Founding Fathers risked their lives fighting the British, worked tirelessly to unite the colonies or made...

Salem Poor was among the first Massachusetts men to join a militia as a "Minuteman," able to respond to British aggression at...