While many learned about the American Revolution as beginning in the Northeast, some may not know Florida's role in the nation's founding.

Just in time for Independence Day and the countdown to America’s 250th anniversary, a newly acquired portrait of George ...

The American Revolution Museum at Yorktown will display this circa-1790 portrait of George Washington by American artist Charles Peale Polk (1767-1822), who portrays the general as the victor of the ...

In 1775, an unsung hero of the Revolutionary War, Western Pennsylvania's Colonel William Thompson, helped drive back the ...

The former California governor is the latest to recognize that the most remarkable thing about the first president was not ...

The only reason Jefferson could call certain truths 'self-evident' is that he was living in a world shaped by Judeo-Christian ...

William Thompson deserves plaudits as one of many whose early service led to the signing of the Declaration of Independence ...

The second volume of the historian’s account of the American Revolution is told with tremendous verve and detail.

The festival includes Revolutionary-era military encampments, musters, and re-enactments, as well as demonstrations of ...

George Washington had Florida on his mind during the American Revolution ― a lot. The Father of the Nation was concerned about a British invasion coming from the South, specifically East and ...

When George Washington, from Virginia, arrived in Cambridge 250 years ago, one of the first things he did was talk to his ...

Beginning July 4, the portrait will be on display in the Declaration of Independence rotunda at the American Revolution ...