Recent rehabilitation of this important site at the Gettysburg battlefield provides a much improved experience for visitors.
Dickinson played a pivotal role in our Nation’s founding, from the Stamp Act to ratifying the Constitution, but his contributions are largely forgotten by history.
Some delegates at the Constitutional Convention wanted a strong executive, while others feared the American president might become a king.
In the Age of Discovery, maps held closely guarded secrets for the kings, adventurers, and merchants who first acquired them.
Previously unknown, a map drawn by Lord Percy, the British commander at Lexington, sheds new light on the perilous retreat to Boston 250 years ago this month.
Badly disguised as Indians, a rowdy group of patriotic vandals kicked a revolution into motion.
Overshadowed in memory by Lexington and Concord, the Massachusetts town of Menotomy saw the most violent and deadly fighting on April 19, 1775.
The dumping of tons of tea in protest set the stage for the American Revolution and was a window on the culture and attitudes of the time.
“Now the war has begun and no one knows when it will end,” said one minuteman after the fight.
The archaeologist who discovered the real Jamestown debunks myths, and answers age-old mysteries about North America's first successful English colony.
Badly disguised as Indians, a rowdy group of patriotic vandals kicked a revolution into motion.
An interview with the famed suffragette, Alice Paul