For more than two centuries, a fallen Revolutionary War soldier was unknown and unnoticed. Now, thanks to happenstance and ...

To deny local self-determination to the Catholic Vendean rebels was to support the imperialist impulse, just as the opponents ...

This year’s Bastille Day celebrations in France focus on European unity and support for Ukraine. Troops and warplanes from ...

Major Andrew McClary was a Revolutionary War hero who died at Bunker Hill. Discover the history behind the fort.

America still needs France.

The American Revolution is often examined through the lives of towering figures such as George Washington and Benjamin Franklin. But as the United States marks 250 years since the Declaration of ...

A Franco-Lebanese national has filed a complaint in Paris for war crimes and crimes against humanity after four members of his family were killed in a bombing in Tyre in April. This is the second such ...

A mass grave of Revolutionary War soldiers was discovered in Wilmington. The grave includes remains of soldiers in the Rhode Island Regiment, a mostly African-American brigade who fought in Yorktown.

After enlisting as a teenager in the 7th Maryland regiment of the Continental Army in January 1777, Pvt. John Pumphrey marched hundreds of miles through early American history. Records show he took ...

In 1944, U.S. Army Private Edward Green, a Black soldier, was shot and killed by a white bus driver in Alexandria, Louisiana. The driver, Odell Lachney, faced no charges after a brief inquest, despite ...

In January 1865, not long after his march had reached the sea, General William Tecumseh Sherman held a remarkable meeting in Savannah, Georgia. Along with Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, Sherman ...

A Civil War unit of Black soldiers, the First Regiment of the United States Colored Heavy Artillery, was mustered in Knoxville in 1864. This unit will be honored at Knoxville's MLK Jr. Parade and ...