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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...

In learning of the imminent passing of a British courier that carried crucial dispatches through South Carolina’s Ninety Six District, Elizabeth...

During the American Revolution, women served many crucial roles in the domestic sphere of America, but few were able to breach into the public and...

Salem Poor was born into slavery in Andover, Massachusetts, in 1747 and worked on the farm of John and Rebecca Poor. At 22 years old, he had saved...

What can be said about Martha Washington that hasn’t been thrown into the lexicon of American lore that we don’t already know about this American icon...

In the late March of 1776, as the Second Continental Congress gathered to debate the merits of independence from Great Britain, Abagail Smith Adams...

Women in some urban areas became valued employees at munitions plants and arsenals, building the machinery of war.

A page which describes the experiences of Georgeanne Woolsey, who became a volunteer nurse during the Civil War.