A new historic marker at Battleship Park in Wilmington honors forgotten Revolutionary War patriots.

Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” may have persuaded the American colonists of the need for independence, but it is one thing to favor independence and quite another to pick up arms to obtain it. We tend ...

“No new social class came to power through the door of the American revolution. The men who engineered the revolt were largely members of the colonial ruling class.” — Howard Zinn The American ...

Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” may have persuaded the American colonists of the need for independence, but it is one thing to favor independence and quite another to pick up arms to obtain it. We tend ...

Two secret battlefield letters written by George Washington during one of the toughest winters of the Revolutionary War have ...

Historian Rick Atkinson stated in a recent talk that Americans tend to view the American Revolution through a kind of rosy haze. In Fate of the Day: The American War for Independence, Atkinson lays ...

Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” may have persuaded the American colonists of the need for independence, but it is one thing to favor independence and quite another to pick up arms to obtain it. We have ...

ORWIGSBURG — Eric Troutman, a Revolutionary War historian, will reveal the “strong influence” of Pennsylvania Germans during the American war for independence at 7 p.m. June 19 at the Orwigsburg ...

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION examines how America’s founding turned the world upside-down. Thirteen British colonies on the Atlantic Coast rose in rebellion, won their independence, and established a new ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina Department of Education (SCDE) has issued the 2026 SC African American History Calendar, recognizing Revolutionary War patriots and influential South Carolinians who ...

Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” may have persuaded the American colonists of the need for independence, but it is one thing to favor independence and quite another to pick up arms to obtain it. We tend ...