Could you fire a flintlock under pressure? Experience a rare demonstration of the weaponry used by Revolutionary War militias ...

David R. Wagner, the eminent Connecticut muralist and painter of great scenes from American history, died in early December ...

As Americans celebrate the nation's 250th birthday, underwater archaeologists race against time to save Lake Champlain's ...

Burns gives considerable credit to Greene’s contributions, including his role as quartermaster general, chief strategist, and ...

The pending Supreme Court decision threatens to gut section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and minority representation nationwide ...

Yellowed by time and brown around the edges, the four- by-seven-inch booklet titled “Regulation for the Order and Discipline of the Troops of the United States” helped transform the Continental Army ...

This painting depicts Gen. George Washington and his troops on the march to Valley Forge during the American Revolutionary War. (AP Photo) Approximately 7,000 Revolutionary War veterans are believed ...

Thierry Nordmann was on his first night shift as a dermatologist at University Hospital Basel, Switzerland, when he got the emergency call. A patient was being brought in who’d had a severe reaction ...

Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns takes a deep dive into the event that led up to the American Revolutionary War, its aftermath and the birth of a nation in this six-part docuseries, “The American ...

“I think he was alert to the ways that it could end up eroding the institution,” says historian Christopher Brown Jeremy Helligar is Deputy Editorial Director at PEOPLE and an author (Is It True What ...

Throughout his career, Burns has developed and perfected the tricks of his particular trade: the evocative use of music and quotations from speeches and correspondence; the use of actors to read the ...

Documentary maker Ken Burns doesn’t think today’s polarized politics are anything new, especially for a country that, as he sees it, already had two civil wars — the American Revolution of 1776 and ...