Molly Pitcher and the Battle of Monmouth
On June 28, 1778, a vicious battle raged several miles west of present-day Freehold, New Jersey. It included some of the longest sustained combat of...
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The Daring Exploits of Elizabeth, Grace, and Rachel Martin
In learning of the imminent passing of a British courier that carried crucial dispatches through South Carolina’s Ninety Six District, Elizabeth...
Virginia House of Burgesses
In 2019, Virginia celebrated the 400th anniversary of the first representative legislative assembly in North America. While the idea of representation...
Retracing Our Steps
Studying the terrain to analyze how the action unfolded on Revolutionary War battlefields isn’t just a modern pursuit. It was the first order of...
Carved in Stone
The John Stevens Shop has been hand chiseling monuments and grave markers for great leaders, war heroes and everyday people for 316 years. Recently...
Weathering the Storm: The Battle of Rhode Island
Learn more about the Battle of Road Island, planned as a combined operation between the Americans and their new French allies, to trap and defeat a...
Viva Lafayette: Hero of Two Worlds
Excerpt from "Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution" by Mike Duncan
Oceans Rise Empires Fall
European involvement in America's campaign for Independence swiftly spread the war around the world on the high seas. Suddenly, clashes between the...
The People Involved in the French and Indian War
Though often remembered as a frontier colonial war, the French and Indian War was in fact just one theater in a larger global war known as the Seven...
The Revolutionary War in Kentucky
For generations, Native Americans utilized the verdant forests, streams, and meadows south of the Ohio River as their hunting grounds. At the...
Battle of the Bands
From Revolution to Civil War, music has provided an outlet for American soldiers in camp and propelled them forward in battle. Lyrics were often...
Shays' Rebellion
In 1786, only a few years after the end of the Revolutionary War, the new United States had to confront a crisis: a rebellion was brewing in the very...