British soldiers met at Lydia Darragh's house in Philadelphia, presenting the perfect opportunity for the Quaker woman to ...

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

The British evacuated Boston in 120 vessels, taking with them some 1,100 loyalists. The retreat represented the end of a ...

A founding father’s historic wartime scribblings could now be yours. Two important letters George Washington wrote in the ...

By the Revolutionary War in the late 1770s, those marking the anniversary of St. Patrick’s death on March 17 included Irish ...

New York City area waterways gave British forces a strong position in key Westchester faceoffs against American troops in the ...

Somerset County played a pivotal role in the American Revolution. Explore the sites where history was made.

Jacob Francis, a free Black man from Amwell Township, fought in the Revolutionary War and overcame racism to become a ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! On the 250th anniversary of George Washington's leaving Mount Vernon to attend the Second Continental Congress, George Washington's Mount Vernon ...

Fraunces Tavern is a landmark of the Revolutionary War, most famously serving as the site of George Washington's 1783 post-war farewell.

March 17, which many think of simply as St. Patrick's Day, also marks the 250 years since the Redcoats left Boston. Why this is a key date in American history ...