In 1758, during the French and Indian War, the future president saved lives by stepping into the middle of a deadly skirmish ...

Years later, he wrote that his life was in as “much jeopardy as it ever had been before or since.” Washington was pursuing a ...

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

Before he led a revolution, George Washington sparked one. This video explores how a young officer’s ambush in the Ohio Valley helped ignite a global conflict—the Seven Years' War. Known in North ...

Colleton County resident John Glenn Creel, chief of the Edisto Natchez-Kusso tribe of South Carolina, points to his father’s ...

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

In the Treaty of Paris France ceded Canada to Britain and the Louisiana Territory, including New Orleans, to Spain. Spain gave up its claim to Florida. Shortly after the Treaty, King George issued a ...

This is the first in a weekly series to be featured every Saturday in The Recorder over the next on the founding of this ...