Connecticut has a deep history with the Revolutionary War. Plenty of tales detail battles ... one of the deponents named Ruben Peck recalled that George Washington tried to prevail upon Judith ...

Two American Revolutionary soldiers were honored recently in a service ... that Smith was present in Yorktown for the surrender of British forces to General George Washington.

Pulaski Day festivities at Chicago's Polish Museum of America honored the "Father of American Cavalry," 280 years after his ...

White House Historical Association Chief Education Officer Matthew Costello talked about the Constitutional foundations of the American presidency.

Delivered 250 years ago, the famous oration marked the height of Henry's influence. But the politician also served in key ...

On Jan. 24, 1776, Henry Knox, a bold, portly bookseller and former Bostonian, solved the first problem. Having seized Fort Ticonderoga, in upstate New York, he and his men dragged the garrison’s ...

Dr. Steven E. Anders, a military history expert, will present a lecture titled "War Seen Through the Eyes of Soldier Artists" at the Prince George County Regional Heritage Center on Sunday, March 23 ...

In Word War I alone, according to the CWGC, British forces employed around 50,000 African soldiers and more than ... promised by the commission,” says George Hay, a historian at the CWGC.

Relatives of Pte. Arthur Vanance who also served (left to right): Louie Halley, Ernest Murray, and Albert Vanance (Arthur’s brother). (Submitted by the family of Albert and Elsie Vanasse.