Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to CuriousKidsUS@theconversation.com. What really happened at the end of the ...

In 23 September 1779, John Paul Jones fought one of the most dramatic naval battles of the American Revolutionary War when Bonhomme Richard clashed with HMS Serapis off Flamborough Head. His flagship ...

From the first shots at Lexington and Concord in 1775 to Cornwallis’s surrender at Yorktown in 1781, the American Revolutionary War reshaped the course of history. Using Google Earth, this video ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There isn't enough evidence for historians to say precisely how many Americans died on the battlefield during the Revolutionary ...

The Revolutionary War was America’s first true military test. The Boston Tea Party helped start the Revolutionary War. George Washington was the first Continental Army General and later became ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This image provided by Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, shows bricks that were believed to be part of military barracks during ...

Documentary maker Ken Burns doesn’t think today’s polarized politics are anything new, especially for a country that, as he sees it, already had two civil wars — the American Revolution of 1776 and ...

Patrick Mantle, an East Rockaway, N.Y., history buff, needs a few good men and women—and even children—to fill the ranks of the Huntington Militia. Mantle isn’t some radical firebrand. He is commander ...

TICONDEROGA, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Artifacts from the American Revolution have been unearthed at Liberty Hill, the site where the Declaration of Independence was read to the Continental Army at Fort ...

SPARTANBURG COUNTY, S.C. (WSPA) – A significant piece of local and American history – one no one knew existed for over 200 years – will soon return home to Spartanburg County. During Monday’s ...