The Continental Army engages the British in the last major battle in the North of the Revolution. A solar eclipse plunges the colonies into darkness in June 1778 as the Continental Army mobilizes from ...

An exhibition at the National Museum of the United States Army tells the stories of soldiers in the American Revolution ...

Wars are not won by evacuation, but George Washington’s decision to evacuate Long Island in August 1776 ultimately saved the ...

Salem Poor, a Black soldier, was singled out for his bravery in one of the first clashes of the American Revolution, but his ...

When war broke out again in Europe on September 1, 1939, the Depression-era U.S. Army was only some 170,000 soldiers ...

A skeletal human leg was discovered in a wooded stretch of Van Cortland Park near the Major Deegan Expressway by a team conducting an archeological survey around 11:38 a.m., police said.

President Donald Trump says the United States has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela as tensions mount with the ...

The Battle of Great Bridge in modern-day Chesapeake was the first significant land battle of the American Revolution in Virginia. It was also significant because it featured multi-racial armies on ...

When I interviewed the editors in August, I knew I wanted to read “A Continued Clap of Thunder,” published this fall by the ...

Today is the 342nd day of 2025. There are 23 days left in the year. 1974: Greece votes decisively to become a republic and ...

Jessie James Decker is fighting a mysterious illness. The 37-year-old country singer opened up about her health in a series of Instagram stories, sharing she hasn't been feeling well the past few days ...

Have you seen Ken Burns’s series “The American Revolution” on PBS? Even if you haven’t, you might have seen the commentary that accompanied it: a scorching string of articles accusing Burns of ...