In the 1860s, two brothers, Nelson and Roswell Moore, photographers from Connecticut, got the idea to use the then-nascent technology of photography to preserve images of the last veterans of the ...

Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin would forever occupy an elevated position in the American imagination ... ended The Revolutionary War. Of the "Founding ...

Lee's father, also known as "Light-Horse Harry," had been a cavalry leader during the Revolutionary War. Henry Lee had also served as governor of Virginia. Despite their position in Virginia's ...

Stephen Puleo’s biography offers a fresh glimpse into the Radical Republicans’ struggle against slavery and shines a light on ...

The Revolutionary War, while not nearly as deadly as the Civil War, was still vicious. Two percent of American soldiers were killed in combat, a greater percentage than in World War I, World War ...

Feeling a little stir-crazy during the pandemic, author Andrew Lawler took a trip to visit his mom back in his hometown of ...

To engage citizen volunteers and make the American story more accessible, the National Archives is enlisting everyone it can ...

While perusing a Hampton Roads bookstore with her, he picked up a biography ... the American Revolution” is about the history of Virginia and Tidewater during the Revolutionary War.