Yellowed by time and brown around the edges, the four- by-seven-inch booklet titled “Regulation for the Order and Discipline of the Troops of the United States” helped transform the Continental Army ...

“I think he was alert to the ways that it could end up eroding the institution,” says historian Christopher Brown Jeremy Helligar is Deputy Editorial Director at PEOPLE and an author (Is It True What ...

Smoke curls gently out of the wetu. Under a bright blue sky, a warrior holds up a spear with a fish pierced on the end. The gray fish has an "x" for an eye, no fins and a toothy grin — the artistic ...

HICKORY CORNERS, Mich. — A soldier from the Revolutionary War was honored Saturday at the Gilmore Car Museum in Hickory Corners. Members of the Joseph B. Westnedge Chapter Sons of the American ...

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 ...

NEWTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA—Newtown, PA Now reports that an archaeological investigation conducted in eastern Pennsylvania by a team of volunteers led by Matt Bielecki of Stony Hill Archaeological Research ...

Despite the calm weather, tensions between the forces supporting King George III and the growing multitude of patriots in Charleston were at a breaking point 250 years ago. Late in the afternoon of ...

Revolutionary battles where General Washington secured his legacy as "First in War." Congress created the Continental Army on June 14, 1775, and John Adams nominated George Washington to serve as the ...

Colonists’ loyalties were split during the Revolutionary War, as shown in the Battle of Brandywine. Revolutionary War reenactors recreate the Battle of Brandywine on the grounds of the Chadds Ford ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Citadel history professor David Preston provided an overview of his lecture about the complexity of what led to the larger outbreak of the American ...

Benedict Arnold had been growing hunkier all afternoon. Incarnated, at the moment, by Cameron Green, the director of interpretation at historic Fort Ticonderoga, Arnold had spent much of this May ...

Even though the Revolutionary War was and is one of the most important events in the history of the United States, it has relatively rarely been imagined on-screen. Perhaps this is because the period ...