Thanks to DNA, relatives of an American Revolutionary War soldier now know the name of their long-lost cousin who died in ...

Across New England, a writer traveled down dirt paths and into historic homes to find the forgotten stories of the enslaved ...

A little more than a week before the nation celebrates its 250th birthday, one of the soldiers who made American independence possible is finally getting recognized, some 245 years after his death.

Forty years of hauling cannons, sleeping in tents, and rigorous artillery training taught this Morristown native more than ...

After enlisting as a teenager in the 7th Maryland regiment of the Continental Army in January 1777, Pvt. John Pumphrey marched hundreds of miles through early American history. Records show he took ...

A new monument honoring soldiers who fought in the American Revolution and later settled in Jefferson County was unveiled ...

The remains of a Revolutionary War soldier were identified as a young man from Maryland just before America's 250th ...

Discover 16 facts about the Revolutionary War that help explain how the United States achieved independence. Learn about American history.

Mention the term “American Revolutionary War” and what comes to mind is an image of soldiers wielding mortars and muskets, ...

The Battle of Camden, in August 1780, would be his last. Pumphrey was felled there by a British musket ball, his body left to lie in a shallow grave in South Carolina. Then, in 2022, archaeologists ...