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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

When George Washington goes to heaven in the Gullah Traveling Theater’s telling of the American Revolution, Saint Peter stops ...

Posey served in various military roles throughout the Revolution. The Indiana Historical Society has his original enlistment ...

William Thompson, a man rarely if ever mentioned in American history books, became the first commissioned colonel in ...

A newly acquired 1790 portrait of George Washington is now on permanent display at the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown ...

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

Documentarian Ken Burns and his team discuss their new series exploring the country’s founding and war for independence on this 250th anniversary.