During the run-up to the 1976 U.S. bicentennial, as many as 20,000 hobbyists signed up to participate in Revolutionary War re-enacting events, according to the Brigade. Mantle’s Huntington ...

For black people, what mattered most was freedom. As the Revolutionary War spread through every region, those in bondage sided with whichever army promised them personal liberty. The British ...

Myra Jones of Mount Pleasant, portrays young courier for the patriots, Emily Geiger, in Echoes of Glory: Heroes from the ...

This lecture was part of the American Revolutionary War in the West conference hosted by the St. Charles County (MO) Historical Society. This lesson explores the weapons used by the British ...

When Martha Ballard began her diary in 1785, the Revolutionary War had been over for just a year. The states, still a confederation and almost entirely agrarian, had a total population of under 4 ...