Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Duquesne University professor and former U.S. Army officer Holly Mayer provided introductory remarks for her lecture about the creation of the ...

A John Trumbull painting of the death of American General Richard Montgomery at the Battle of Quebec on December 31, 1775 Public domain via Wikimedia Commons The first governing document of the United ...

On June 17, 1775, British infantrymen assembled at the base of Breed’s Hill, one of two promontories that comprised the Charlestown Heights outside of Boston. The other, Bunker Hill, saw little ...

Following the outbreak of conflict in Massachusetts in April 1775, the Second Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia in May 1775 to function as a de facto government for the fledgling and ...

Working with other top service officials, Milley shifted billions of dollars into modernization programs including the top ...

John Laurens and Joseph Brant. Many of the discussions of the American Revolutionary War center around colossal figures like George Washington and Benjamin Franklin-but it took much more to win the ...

Two-hundred and fifty years ago, the representatives of the Second Continental Congress agreed: “Resolved, that six companies of expert riflemen, be immediately raised in Pennsylvania, two in Maryland ...

TOWAMENCIN — Local historians Brian Hagey and Victor Verbeke informed the township that its application was recently approved by the state’s Historic Preservation Office, Board of Supervisors ...