Military heroes who sacrificed for their country certainly deserve to be remembered on Memorial Day weekend. Some people remember them with parades...
Revolutionary holidays didn’t start and end with Independence Day. When the Revolutionary War ended, Trumbull, Conn., celebrated with A Great Jubilee Day...
In 1794, the Atlantic Ocean was a battleground, with the French and British at loggerheads. The British Navy, with the support of...
The Penobscot sachem Joseph Orono died in 1801, too early to know about his consolation prize for losing his people’s land to...
Shortly before the American Revolution broke out, an item appeared in a Boston newspaper identifying 18 patriots condemned to death. On Sept....
You didn’t have to show courage in battle to be a revolutionary hero. But if you were, it probably took more than...