Some Revolutionary War naval fights sound less like dusty history and more like a lost miniseries. From small ships to ...

Chances are that many of the American Revolutionary War battles and historic moments you learned about in high school U.S.

Many battles were fought on New England soil during the Revolutionary War. Here are eight sites you can visit today.

Selected by Rick Atkinson, the author of “The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780 ...

Generations of Boston families played and picnicked on the grassy, sloping lawns of the Bunker Hill Monument. Musket balls and other artifacts from one of ...

More than 200 reenactors and living historians took part in the two-day Battle of Gloucester commemoration.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with author Rick Atkinson in Lexington, Mass., about the first book of his forthcoming trilogy about the American Revolution, "The British are Coming." Today marks 250 years ...

A decade ago, historians searched for the site of the Battle of Thompson's Island in the Allegheny River. Here's what they ...

The biggest battle in the American Revolution, and the first fought after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, happened right here in New York City, along a geological ridge that runs ...

In a letter to George Washington in January 1776, John Adams declared that New York “is the Nexus of the Northern and Southern colonies, a Kind of Key to the whole Continent, as it is a Passage to ...

BRUSHING UP ON OUR LOCAL REVOLUTIONARY WAR HISTORY TONIGHT. THE FIRST BATTLE OF CEDAR SPRINGS TOOK PLACE BACK IN 1780, RIGHT IN SPARTANBURG COUNTY. AND TODAY, RE-ENACTORS RETURN TO THE BATTLEFIELD.

The Battle of Eutaw Springs and the Battle of Huck’s Defeat will be reenacted at Historic Brattonsville in York County in ...