The New York State Museum will open a huge exhibit this summer to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the ...

When we picture the American Revolution, names like George Washington or Benjamin Franklin often dominate the narrative. But the fight for independence depended on global talent foreign-born ...

Visitors gathered at The Alamo for a sunrise ceremony early this morning to mark the 190th anniversary of the historic battle that helped shape Texas history.

The find has thrown open a kind of time portal that's advanced efforts to get a fuller picture of the April 27, 1777, Battle ...

The Fort Pitt Museum unveiled a new long-term exhibition on March 5, 2026, highlighting Western Pennsylvania’s role as the epicenter of the Revolutionary War in the West.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem about the midnight ride of Paul Revere. But 90 years before he wrote it, something else ...

A new exhibition exploring Western Pennsylvania’s role in the Revolutionary War was unveiled Sunday at the Fort Pitt Museum. The museum, part of the Senator John Heinz History Center’s family of ...

Sybil Ludington's Revolutionary War ride could be either entirely true, or the stuff of myth, depending on who you ask.

Across 250 years of history, the actions of the Army have been closely intertwined with the direction and growth of the United States as a nation, and at the heart of it all was the soldier and his ...

When we talk about the American Revolution, we usually use the same sort of tired tropes and characterizations. Warfare is complex, and can’t be readily distilled down to common elements like the ...

LANCASTER, Pa. — Each day throughout south central Pennsylvania, whether people know it or not, they pass by history. Without some of this history around the time of the colonies, the idea of the ...

In the tense winter before the American Revolution ignited, Benjamin Franklin was in London trying, largely in vain, to cool the growing rift between Britain and its colonies. On Feb. 7, 1775, he t ...