Before the gold rush took Americans out west to California, gold was mined in the east! Check out this lesson in history. | ...

Reed’s Gold Mine is still attracting visitors from far and wide – although this time folks are mining for history. While you’re here you can explore the underground tunnels that were ...

n Several Hessian soldiers who stayed in Pennsylvania became fraktur artists. n Some of the fanciful birds decorating many fraktur could have been taken partially from life, since the now-extinct ...

In the surprise attack, an advance column led by Hessian Jaeger scouts fighting for the British were pinned down by Colonial soldiers who put up a spirited resistance at the Old Stone Arch Bridge ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks with author Rick Atkinson in Lexington, Mass., about the first book of his forthcoming trilogy about the American Revolution, "The British are Coming." ...

not far from the spot where her grandfather and his Black soldiers had beaten back a charge of Hessian troops in 1778. She was 91. Two of her daughters, Laura Richards and Maud Howe Elliot ...

The Inn was also involved in preparations for George Washington's Christmas night attack on Hessian soldiers in Trenton, known as the "Crossing of the Delaware." In the years following ...

George Washington is an American icon for many important reasons. As the Continental Army’s commander-in-chief and the ...