Museum leaders are working to connect people today to the events of 1776. They’re confident they can, and will.

In the optimistic missive, Washington extols the revolutionary spirit of the American people—even in ... outbreaks Eli Wizevich The 18th-century painting by Charles Willson Peale had previously ...

Burch's Mill on the Pee Dee River, where Gen. Francis Marion's South Carolina militia and Micajah Ganey's British loyalists signed a treaty, will be protected.

A piece of American ... Revolution) in 1968, has been recovered and returned to the museum. The musket, believed to have been used by a Continental soldier during the Revolutionary War, was ...