Jacob is one of the more than 460 North Carolinian African American men, both enslaved and free, who fought during the Revolutionary War.

When most people think about the Revolutionary War, their minds jump straight to the famous names—Lexington, Concord, Bunker Hill, Yorktown. These places earned their spot in every history textbook, ...

Discover the untold story of Black soldiers who fought for independence in Maryland during the Revolutionary War. Learn about ...

Deborah Sampson covered her chest with a tight piece of cloth, adopted a man's name and enlisted in the Continental Army's elite light infantry in 1782. For 17 months, she marched through the Hudson ...

Connecticut veterans are raising money to honor the Provision State's part in celebrating America's 250th birthday.

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Have you watched the Ken Burns' American Revolution documentary? I consider myself pretty well ...

Smoke curls gently out of the wetu. Under a bright blue sky, a warrior holds up a spear with a fish pierced on the end. The gray fish has an “x” for an eye, no fins and a toothy grin — the artistic ...

Just a few years before America declared independence from Great Britain, pioneers were fighting for what would later become ...

Hike the trails at the site of a former ironworks that molded Nathanael Greene into a skillful general in the fight for independence.

Maybe Harrisburg’s connections to the Revolutionary War aren’t obvious. No battles raged here. No signers of the Declaration of Independence hailed from here. No one tossed tea into the Susquehanna.