COMPASSION has given way to cruelty. Service has been replaced by selfishness. The escalating strike by resident doctors — ...

A study found that hot chocolate contains more antioxidants than wine and tea, thereby reducing the risk of heart disease.

Yellowed by time and brown around the edges, the four- by-seven-inch booklet titled “Regulation for the Order and Discipline of the Troops of the United States” helped transform the Continental Army ...

“I think he was alert to the ways that it could end up eroding the institution,” says historian Christopher Brown Jeremy Helligar is Deputy Editorial Director at PEOPLE and an author (Is It True What ...

A print shows British Brig. Gen. Charles O'Hara surrendering to American Maj. Gen. Benjamin Lincoln in Yorktown, Virginia, in 1781. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division) History’s ...

Smoke curls gently out of the wetu. Under a bright blue sky, a warrior holds up a spear with a fish pierced on the end. The gray fish has an "x" for an eye, no fins and a toothy grin — the artistic ...

Campbell's story was relatively unknown until records of land request were found. A Black Revolutionary War hero is finally receiving his due. Born around 1760 in Culpepper County, Virginia, the ...

Ken Burns’ new PBS series, The American Revolution, reframes the founding war as a brutal, chaotic conflict fought on multiple fronts and driven by impossible odds. From fractured command to ...

NEWTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA—Newtown, PA Now reports that an archaeological investigation conducted in eastern Pennsylvania by a team of volunteers led by Matt Bielecki of Stony Hill Archaeological Research ...

A two-day skirmish 250 years ago between a British naval force and colonial militiamen in Hampton and Williamsburg led to what historians have come to mark when the Revolutionary War came to Virginia.

Revolutionary battles where General Washington secured his legacy as "First in War." Congress created the Continental Army on June 14, 1775, and John Adams nominated George Washington to serve as the ...

Sept. 17, 1862 is one of the bloodiest days in American history. Mostly that’s because of the Battle of Antietam, where nearly 23,000 Americans were killed, captured or wounded, but Western ...