Newly uncovered remnants of an army barracks in Colonial Williamsburg offer new clues into the lives of America's first ...

By the time Congress got around to awarding the promised rifles to “Aiken’s Volunteers” on May 20, 1826, the U.S. Army had ...

Even before 1960, when seventeen countries in Africa gained independence in a single year, American diplomats had identified ...

Long Island has played host to a number of these famous and well-known people from the past. In this century one of the best ...

It’s a celebration for the centuries as Massachusetts commemorates 250 years of its central role in American independence.

After knocking off the Boston Bruins on Sunday and the Vegas Golden Knights on Thursday, the New York Islanders (16-18-7) have an opportunity on Saturday night to sweep their three-game road trip ...

The crowd cheered and whistled and many waved the new Syrian flag, the revolutionary flag marked ... in 2011 to oppose Assad during the civil war. “You free soldier, the Syrian eminence appears ...

Middlebury's existing monument to French Army General Jean-Baptiste Rochambeau lies deep in the woods off Breakneck Hill Road at the actual site where the French general, along with 5,500 soldiers ...

It’s hoped a phone app may be able to help save the lives of stroke patients in the regions. The Zeus app, run by the Australian Stroke Alliance, allows paramedics to transmit crucial data from the ...

The settlement of the Northeast up to and including the time of the French and Indian War established the canals and water systems in upstate New York ... battle of Long Island on Aug. 22, 1776 ...

“I am wearied almost to death with the retrograde motion of things,” he wrote in late 1776. When British troops and naval power forced Washington to abandon New York City, the commander of the ...