On this day in 1775, the Continental Congress, the governing body of the 13 American colonies and later the United States, ...

Congress voted to make one of the grand monuments in Lafayette Square across from the White House an ode to Baron Friedrich ...

Documentarian Ken Burns and his team discuss their new series exploring the country’s founding and war for independence on ...

Alexandria — After securing American independence, many of General Washington’s staff from the Continental Army ... Camp, Col. John Fitzgerald, who served with him throughout the Revolutionary ...

A Revolutionary War Memorial Service will be held at ... With increasing hostilities in the Boston area, the Continental Army was then formed by an act of the Continental Congress on June 14 ...

On March 10, an anonymous address circulated the camp at Newburgh ... the conclusion of the Revolutionary War in 1783. When Congress ordered the last Continental Army to disband and its remaining ...

The festival and parade is on Saturday, June 14, treating attendees to sights of imposing tanks, aircraft and thousands of soldiers.

KidzFest will be held from noon to 5 p.m. on Saturday in Old Town Winchester. Featured are hands-on activities, interactive vendor tables with crafts, games and giveaways, a live DJ, mascot ...

On the same grounds in Philadelphia where the United States declared its sovereignty from British rule more than two ...

You hear people talk about sources in the news. I believe most of us want to use accurate sources when learning something. I ...

Foreign military officers referred to the American military as “speckled,” owing to the diverse racial makeup of its troops.