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 ...

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 ...

The day ended in a British retreat to Boston. But the war would be long — John Adams had predicted it might span 10 years — and the outcome never assured. On June 17, the Americans ...

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 ...

Bringing together a group of distinguished historians, Revolutionary World shows that the major revolutions of the modern age, which have so often been studied as isolated national or imperial events, ...