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As SC celebrates Carolina Day, the anniversary of Battle of Sullivan's Island, efforts are underway to raise awareness of ...
Documentarian Ken Burns and his team discuss their new series exploring the country’s founding and war for independence on ...
Joseph Warren was a key leader of the American Revolution, mobilizing troops and managing a circle of spies. But he's mainly ...
Jefferson City isn't likely to be the subject of a British invasion, but minutemen were in the Capital City Monday evening to ...
On June 14, 1775, the Continental Congress voted to replace the colonies' part-time militias with a full-time army – and ...
A brief look back at the Battle of Bunker Hill from Ken Burns looks ahead to his upcoming six-part documentary.
Feel the sense of what it was like to be on the ground at the battlegrounds where the American Revolution was fought.
On the eve of anniversaries of the Declaration and the Battle of Gettysburg, it’s time to consider connections between the ...
In the Revolutionary War Cemetery, on Central Street in Saugus, is the burial ground of Parson Joseph Roby. Roby was a leader ...
As the U.S. marks the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill, it might take a moment — or more — to remember why ...
On June 2, 1775, barely six weeks after British troops and colonial militias had clashed at Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts, John Adams wrote to his wife, Abigail. He was in Philadelphia ...
How a public health crisis nearly derailed the American Revolution. George Washington confronted a smallpox epidemic with a belief in science—and a controversial plan.