THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, the new six-part, 12-hour series that is currently streaming on PBS (directed by Ken Burns, Sarah ...

Next July marks 250 years since a handful of upstart American colonies declared independence from Britain. A war was fought, as we all know, and almost immediately after it was over, Richard Bell ...

Often overlooked, the French "Charleville" infantry musket was one of the most significant longarms of the 18th and 19th ...

Ken Burns's new documentary achieves a tone that is unmistakably Burns: measured, atmospheric, at times elegiac and always ...

The American Revolution will be a war that will pit brother against brother – and birth a nation. The American Revolution will become not just a local war for independence, but a war between great ...

Ken Burns’ new PBS series, The American Revolution, reframes the founding war as a brutal, chaotic conflict fought on multiple fronts and driven by impossible odds. From fractured command to ...

Editor’s note: Another in a series of occasional stories about York County in the American Revolution, part of the buildup in research and storytelling to the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of ...

Washington Rallying the Troops at Monmouth. Painting by Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, 1857. Monmouth County Historical Association The war began on April 19, 1775, with the Battles of Lexington and Concord ...

Hugh B. Price’s family den located inside of his tastefully decorated colonial style home in New Rochelle, New York, is ...

In Pennsylvania, the foundations of a treasure linked to a robbery committed by the Doan Gang during the Revolutionary War.

More than 1 million women have become members of the Daughters of the American Revolution, including Annie Bidwell, who was ...

The DAR awards more than 30 scholarships annually, totaling close to $250,000, to students across the country, but the ...