On June 17, 1775, some 1,000 rebel colonial troops faced down the British war machine on a hill on a peninsula north of ...

Archaeologists discovered an iron cannonball near the Alamo Church in San Antonio that may have played a role in the 1836 ...

Even though it’s been nearly 250 years since the Continental Congress declared independence from Britain, the study of the ...

U.S. Sens. Tim Kaine of Virginia and Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi today introduced the American Battlefield Protection Program Enhancement Act, bipartisan legislation to protect America’s historic ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - A historic battle is set to be honored for years to come as the Monnett Battle of Westport Fund unveils a series of 10 markers in Kansas City. The Monnett Battle of Westport ...

During the Revolution, the troops would be read the Declaration of Independence each year "to remind them why they were ...

The Yorktown Battlefield, the developing Williamsburg Battlefield, the Green Spring Battlefield and other battlefields in Virginia and around the nation could be demonstrably enhanced if a proposed ...

The Revolutionary War, Civil War, and other monumental battles fought on American soil are squarely in the past, but try telling that to the reenactors that fire muskets or cannonades over storied ...

Thousands of people gathered June 20-21 at Stage Fort Park to watch reenactors bring the Battle of Gloucester to life.

FRANKLIN, Tenn. (WKRN) – Four historic Middle Tennessee Civil War battlefields are receiving millions of dollars in preservation grants from the Tennessee Historical Commission. According to the ...

War is never pretty, but there can be levels even to the cruelty and ugliness of war, with some almost inconceivably horrendous. Such levels can be measured by one macabre metric: the number of deaths ...