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With an eye to proper military administration, General Stonewall Jackson sought to have an official Chaplin General appointed for his Corps. A...

During the Battle of Fredericksburg, Confederate General Robert E. Lee looked at Chatham and supposedly said in answer to James Horace Lacy, “[Major]...

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...

The John Stevens Shop has been hand chiseling monuments and grave markers for great leaders, war heroes and everyday people for 316 years. Recently...

Fort Taylor, on the southwest tip of Key West, overlooks the confluence of the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. Cruise ships pass, and fade into...

The Virginia Monument, one of the earliest and largest Confederate monuments on the Gettysburg Battlefield, has a dramatic history. Ever since it was...

In many ways, the American Revolution saw women acting far outside their traditional gender roles. While men left their homes, farms, and businesses...

Even 250 years after the events of the American Revolution, there is much that historians are still piecing together about the activities of spies...

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...

Excerpt from "Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution" by Mike Duncan

In 2019, Virginia celebrated the 400th anniversary of the first representative legislative assembly in North America. While the idea of representation...

After the Old Hagerstown Pike passes the Miller farm on the right, the road takes a right-hand turn of almost ninety degrees and changes its name to...