The exemplar brigadiers mostly stand out for their battlefield elan and resilience, while the major generals represent the ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! On the 250th anniversary of George Washington's leaving Mount Vernon to attend the Second Continental Congress, George Washington's Mount Vernon ...

When Mary Ball Washington died in August 1789, her eldest child, George Washington, was a few months into his first term as ...

The unit fought bravely in the Revolutionary War, holding off British troops at the Battle of Brooklyn so George Washington's ...

KITTANNING — In April 1775, William Thompson, a man rarely if ever mentioned in American history books, became the first commissioned colonel in the Continental Army of a rifle battalion in the 1st ...

In 2025, President Donald Trump issued an executive order restoring the use of Department of War as a "secondary title" for ...

Nestled on a corner in lower Manhattan's high-powered Financial District is a three-story brick building that's home to the oldest restaurant in New York. Established in 1762, Fraunces Tavern is not ...

Washington led the colonial forces to victory over the British in the Revolutionary War in 1781. He was the first to sign the ...

Newsweek Columnist, Vice President of Content at Salem Media Group and host of "Our American Stories" In a small town 60 miles north of New York City, General George Washington saved the American ...