However, it is not from either war. It was a little-known encounter — the largest cavalry engagement in the American Revolution — that took place in Gloucester County in October 1781, just 16 days ...

Twenty-seven cavalrymen charged Japanese infantry at Morong, Philippines, on January 16, 1942. They scattered hundreds of ...

Stuart Salmon is affiliated with Universities and Colleges Union (UCU). Any discussion of films and TV series about the American revolution has to start with a caveat. There have been historical ...

A new Ken Burns documentary highlights Rhode Island's significant contributions to the American Revolution. Key figures like Governor Stephen Hopkins and General Nathanael Greene played pivotal roles ...

Takeaways from Ken Burns’ documentary “The American Revolution,” now streaming on PBS: History is not clean and simple. Events do not unfold in a linear and logical fashion that leads to inevitable ...

PBS has extended Ken Burns’ free streaming window for his history docuseries “The American Revolution,” following its ratings success. The 12-hour documentary series, directed by Burns, Sarah Botstein ...

CAMDEN — Most South Carolinians probably aren’t familiar with Matthew Neal. They likely don’t know that he was born in 1755 in Virginia, or that he volunteered several times to fight in the American ...

The six-episode, 12-hour extravaganza, The American Revolution: A Film by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein & David Schmidt, closes with a famous passage written by the esteemed Philadelphia physician, Dr.

The Adams Presidential Center in Quincy is hosting a free event about the PBS documentary "The American Revolution." Award-winning historians Gordon Wood and Friederike Baer, who were featured in the ...

“The American Revolution,” a documentary by Ken Burns, has been watched by many people. In a recent interview about the documentary, Mr. Burns stated that the American Revolution was the most ...

Next July marks 250 years since a handful of upstart American colonies declared independence from Britain. A war was fought, as we all know, and almost immediately after it was over, Richard Bell ...

When you settle in for the six-part, 12-hour storytelling of the American Revolution, you sense immediately that it won’t be another glorified review of Founding Fathers and candle-lit taverns.