Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” may have persuaded the American colonists of the need for independence, but it is one thing to favor independence and quite another to pick up arms to obtain it. We tend ...

From “Yankee Doodle” to iPod playlists, here’s what American troops read and listened to in every war — and how culture ...

Soldiers of the American Revolution: African American of the 1st Rhode Island Regiment; New England militiaman; frontier rifleman wearing a Virginia hunting shirt; French officer in a blue coat.

Anyone who has studied the American Revolution knows that some of the most important battles took place in New Jersey.

Georgia Day marks the 1733 founding of the last of the original 13 British colonies. In the American Revolutionary War, Georgia also was late to secure independence.

The Revolutionary War was about many things — self-governance being at the core — but a major driver was access to land. The British restricted colonists’ migration westward across the Appalachian ...

The grand events and oft-told tales of the American Revolution are easy to find among sprawling reverent battlefields and national parks. George Washington's Mount Vernon in Virginia, Independence ...

The American Revolutionary War in Charleston will come alive at the Historic Charleston Foundation (HCF) and the Charleston ...