As SC celebrates Carolina Day, the anniversary of Battle of Sullivan's Island, efforts are underway to raise awareness of ...

While their images might not be immortalized on dollar bills or their stories ingrained into every high school syllabus, these lesser-known figures nonetheless played critical roles in the shaping of ...

While many learned about the American Revolution as beginning in the Northeast, some may not know Florida's role in the ...

The American Revolution (1775-1783) was the first – and last – time that soldiers would serve in integrated units until President Truman’s Executive Order desegregating the military in 1948.

To become a member of the DAR, women must be at least 18 years old and be able to prove direct lineal descent from a patriot of the American Revolution. A patriot includes anyone who supported the ...

During the American Revolution—and before the United States standardized its familiar stars and stripes—the patriots carried hundreds of different flags. Decorated with classical figures ...

The Western Reserve Society Sons of the American Revolution will hold a patriot grave-marking ceremony April 19 at Evergreen Cemetery, 29535 Center Ridge Road in Westlake. The Western Reserve Socie… ...

Two-hundred-and-fifty years ago, on April 19, 1775, British troops faced off against colonial militias in the Massachusetts towns of Lexington and Concord, and exchanged fire - the "shot heard ...

The most sensational rumor going back more than a century, is that Margaret Kemble Gage, the wife of the British general, helped tip off the American Revolution.

On April 19, 1775, as British Regulars retreated from Lexington and Concord, a 78-year-old farmer named Samuel Whittemore faced a profound choice. He could stand by and watch the British march ...

Foreign military officers referred to the American military as “speckled,” owing to the diverse racial makeup of its troops.