April 2025 marks 250 years since the momentous events at Lexington and Concord—the opening salvos of the American Revolution.

At the three-year mark of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, the “Stand with Ukraine” exhibition features major humanitarian projects conducted in Ukraine. These actions are implemented by ...

North Andover Historical Society museum educator David Blauvelt highlighted some of the area’s Revolutionary War heroes who are buried in the First and Second Old Burial Grounds and how their personal ...

Elizabeth and her husband, Samuel, raised seven children in Virginia. During the Revolutionary War, Samuel served in the First Militia under Captain William Russell. In 1779, the Porter family ...

First responders continue to battle a raging fire that now involves three houses on Kansas City’s east side. KCPS prepares to break ground on the King Empowerment Campus. These renderings show ...

In 1775, a ragtag army of farmers and tradesmen went to war against the most powerful army in the world, ultimately winning American independence. What military technologies did the American ...

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If seeing a musket turn a nice, ripe honeydew into fruit salad at 60 yards is your idea of fun, “Revolutionary War Weapons” may not be the show for you: What accomplishes the melon assassinati ...

Watch On Your Schedule: NOVA "Revolutionary War Weapons" will be available to stream with the PBS app. Watch the best of PBS anytime, anywhere on the free PBS app. Stream your favorite PBS shows ...

camps and combat outposts in some of the Revolutionary War-era defenses tested by "NOVA." Wooden, dirt-filled gabions were the old-timey forerunner to today's Hesco barriers that still protect ...

Much of South Carolina’s Revolutionary War history is tied to places like Kings Mountain and Cowpens, battles that shifted the course of the conflict and played a nationally recognized role in ...

Revolutionary War reenactors are going to march on Heritage State Park to mark the 247th anniversary of the Battle of Fall River. The skirmish took place in 1778 between colonists and English troops.