During the Seven Years’ War (1754-63) many New Englanders had served ... that highlight the heroics of elites such as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, or John Adams. And the most famous ...

A four-acre estate said to be on the site of what had once been former President George Washington’s hunting lodge is on the ...

But even though I have a hard time envisioning these historic events occurring in my hometown as it is today, sometimes when ...

George Washington patented 10,900 acres along the Kanawha River in what is now Mason County, West Virginia. What started off ...

The Charleston Museum is launching a brand new audio tour at the historicalHeyward-Washington House, spotlighting the home's ...

The story of Peter Francisco may have ended in Richmond, but it began in the Azores, which is 3,000 miles away from Richmond, right in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

Two lamps, replicas of those hung in the Old North Church, were rehung at the Wood History Museum of Springfield Friday, part ...

George Washington’s trips through Butler County in his life are a memorable claim to fame people from the county have if asked about their hometown. On Thursday, April 10, history buffs attended the ...

This Saturday is the 250th anniversary of the first day of the 3,059-day war that birthed the modern world. Commemorating the ...

George Washington when, on July 31, 1777, he was introduced to the latest French "major general" foisted on him by the Continental Congress, this one an aristocrat not yet out of his teens.