Crawford’s book, “This Fierce People: The Untold Story of the American Revolution in the South,” is this year’s featured book ...

Sometimes events happen that we are not aware of, even those nearby. One such event was the Battle of Guilford Courthouse near Greensboro that occurred March 15, 1781, during the Revolutionary War.

From Scottish immigrant to Revolutionary War deputy commissary and Missouri justice, John Abernethie’s well-documented life still offers rich clues for family history researchers.

On Jan. 26, 1775, Pittsylvania County residents gathered at the courthouse in Callands to organize revolution. A group of men appointed by the local citizenry risked everything by taking a public ...

The ever-popular Liverpool Half Marathon is returning to the city's streets, with thousands of runners taking over the ...

Ed Root was excited. A past president of the Civil War Roundtable of Eastern Pennsylvania, a local group of war-between-the-states history enthusiasts, he had just heard that the man who owned a sword ...

GLOUCESTER — The Battle of the Hook. It sounds straight out of World War II or from the Civil War and General Sherman’s march to the sea. However, it is not from either war. It was a little-known ...

Archaeologists from Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia have uncovered evidence pointing to the existence of a Revolutionary War barracks on land near the Colonial Williamsburg Regional Visitor Center.

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THE AMERICAN REBELLION (658 pp.)—Sir Henry Clinton—Edited by William B. Willcox—Yale University ($7.50). Few generals can resist explaining how they happened to lose a battle. Make it a campaign or a ...

Your device does not support the audio. October 18 and 19 have been dates marked by a fascinating array of events that have shaped history across the globe. Going back, October 18, 1867, saw the ...

Today is Saturday, Oct. 19, the 293rd day of 2024 with 73 to follow. The moon is waning. Morning stars are Jupiter, Mars, Neptune, Saturn and Uranus. Evening stars are Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Neptune, ...