Researchers identified the shipwreck as HMS Hind, a British frigate that intercepted American ships in the Atlantic before ...

Test your knowledge of the American Revolution with this quiz! Answer questions on key events, figures, and causes, including the Boston Tea Party, Thomas Jefferson, and the fight for independence.

Col. James Burd made an inspection tour of forts on the Pennsylvania frontier during the French and Indian War from Feb. 16 ...

While their images might not be immortalized on dollar bills or their stories ingrained into every high school syllabus, ...

Settler colonialism describes how imperial states capture a territory, migrate there, displace or eliminate the “barbarian” ...

As the U.S. prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary, Ken Burns is releasing a deep look into the fight for American ...

In 2024, they made up about 14% of Canada’s active Armed Forces, even though they represent less than 1% of the country’s ...

The war turned Vietnam’s lush landscapes into scorched earth. Entire provinces were reduced to rubble, waterways were polluted, forests decimated, and soil rendered infertile by chemicals ...

William Thompson, a man rarely if ever mentioned in American history books, became the first commissioned colonel in the ...

Birth of a Nation” (2025) by Stan Douglas. The Canadian artist remakes a sequence from the 1915 movie with new ...

Andrew Allen (1740-1825), the second son of Allentown founder William Allen, spent many years in England hoping to regain the ...

Janet Livingston married Richard Montgomery on July 24, 1773. She never remarried after his death during his campaign to Canada in winter 1775. She never let anyone forget “my general” or “my soldier, ...