The first true commander-in-chief of the armed forces to lead the Revolutionary War was not, as many believe, George ...

For all the festivities around July 4, the nation’s founding document, the Declaration of Independence, actually depicts a ...

At the time, the disease caused by the variola virus killed as many as one ... Continental Congress was convinced. The lawmakers repealed bans on variolation across the colonies, the first major ...

The First Continental ... The next day, Congress voted to form, from this nucleus, the 1st American Regiment for national service. By the fall of 1784, the whole U.S. Army was one regiment ...

Every day in my previous life I would duck into the basement of the U.S. Capitol to anxiously await a freshly bound copy of the Congressional Record, the daily chronicle of legislative proceedings ...

Military victories were essential in helping America win its independence from Britain. Early successes gave the Patriots ...

Meanwhile, the Continental Congress has put George Washington in charge of a Patriot army just days before yet another battle ...

At our 2013 Special National Congress, we were the first to raise the demand for President Zuma to resign, because, as our resolution said, “President Zuma’s administration has been marked by one ...

The Revolutionary War artifacts tell the story of what General Cornwallis tried to destroy forever—but couldn’t erase.

The actor who became famous as Luke Skywalker now plays a math-obsessed grandfather in “The Life of Chuck.” At MoMath, he studied fractals and rode a square-wheeled tricycle ...

Jeb Williams, Game and Fish Department director, announced the appointment of Casey Anderson to the agency’s deputy director ...