Documentarian Ken Burns and his team discuss their new series exploring the country’s founding and war for independence on this 250th anniversary.

In summer, British soldiers in heavy woolen uniforms suffered heat stroke on marches beneath the unforgiving South Carolina sun. Nor’easters and hurricanes ambushed unsuspecting armies and navies.

Ewald did not join in the festivities. He was a Hessian soldier who had served with the British Army in battle after battle, up and down the East Coast — at White Plains, New York; Assunpink Creek in ...

The 19 bronze plaques brazenly stolen from Hobart’s Soldiers’ Memorial Avenue last week have been recovered after police received an anonymous tip leading them to a dumped hessian bag filled with the ...

In up-close looks at war via videos, museum-goers can go back to the 1775 Battle of Bunker Hill, an intense scene of ...