This month marks the 250th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, where minutemen fought British soldiers who ...

But even though I have a hard time envisioning these historic events occurring in my hometown as it is today, sometimes when ...

The story of Peter Francisco may have ended in Richmond, but it began in the Azores, which is 3,000 miles away from Richmond, right in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

Deborah Sampson was the first woman to ever enlist in the United States military. She did it by pretending to be a man.

Two hundred and fifty years ago today, the battles of Lexington and Concord were fought. As battles go, they didn’t amount to ...

Inside the steeple of Old North Church and among the Southern Colonies, less familiar stories of the events from 250 years ...

George Washington when, on July 31 ... for the management of an army with officer-aristocrats. In such an army, soldiers were cannon fodder. Officers were expected to work for the love of glory ...

For 250 years, historians have argued over who fired first at the Battle of Lexington, when Massachusetts militiamen faced British soldiers about 20 miles west of Boston.

Most of us can remember at least a few troubling scenes from George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984: the mandatory love ...

The actions of future Army National Guard units at North Bridge, Concord, Massachusetts, April 19, 1775, shaped the course of ...

The story of Peter Francisco may have ended in Richmond, but it began in the Azores, which is 3,000 miles away from Richmond, right in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

U.S. Army Sgt. Ivor D. Thornton, 34, landed on Omaha Beach in Normandy in the second wave of the D-Day invasion on June 6, ...