The role of Billy Flora, a free Black man, in this pivotal victory — and the erosion later of rights — show a paradox of the ...

This project is supported in part by a grant from the Virginia American Revolution 250 Commission ... a Black man and celebrated Revolutionary War hero, illustrates the paradoxes of America ...

Now, and for some years to come, we will need a lot less Paul Weiss, and a lot more Benjamin Warner.

As part of the 250th celebration in Washington County, The Washington County Historical Society will host historian Eric ...

Rick Atkinson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, is coming to Newport to talk about his latest book on the American Revolution. The event is happening on May 9 at the historic Colony House from 6 to ...

It was a combination of a Veterans Honor Walk around the Capital complex, followed by a ceremony at the Freedom Tree.

One young woman, who confessed she is majoring in elementary education, suggested the US won independence from Spain during ...

Between 1950 and 1970, the cost of transporting goods dropped by two-thirds. This change was so remarkable it helped usher in an age of globalization.

There may be reasons to idolize the past — better music, cooler cars — but greater prosperity is not among them.

The Devil's Punchbowl in Natchez, Mississippi, was a Civil War-era death camp. After the Civil War millions of freed Black ...

As the head of the Hudson’s Bay Company’s Columbia Department, George Simpson understood American settlers followed missionaries who followed fur trappers. Seeing his Columbia territory as rightly Bri ...