NMAHAFH copy Purchased from the NMAH Library Endowment. The Continental Light Dragoons, 1776-1783 / Gregory J.W. Urwin -- European influences on Continental cavalry / Lee F. McGee -- Cavalry action at ...

Step behind the scenes of Ken Burns’s new film to see how The American Revolution came to life. Step behind the scenes of Ken Burns’s new film to see how The American Revolution came to life. Through ...

They must have made an exotic sight in Moravian Bethlehem during the American Revolution, the two cavalrymen from central Europe. Not that the large number of aristocratic French military did not ...

This past June, at a No Kings rally outside a white clapboard church in a little brick town in the lower right-hand corner of Vermont, Green Mountaineers huddled together in raincoats under a ...

In Ken Burns’s newest documentary, the war for independence was also a civil war. Amid a bitter fight over history, its timing feels urgent. Critic’s Notebook In Ken Burns’s newest documentary, the ...

When discussing his work and its long conversation with the American story, Ken Burns often shares a version of a quote long attributed to Mark Twain. “History doesn’t repeat itself,” the maxim ...

Editor’s note: Another in a series of occasional stories about York County in the American Revolution, part of the buildup in research and storytelling to the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of ...

The ironies abound. As the United States looks forward to the 250th anniversary of American independence, the sitting president is pictured wearing a crown and describing himself as a king, apparently ...

Since the first Monday of March is celebrated in honor of Casimir Pulaski, here are 10 things from the Tribune’s archives to know about the Polish-born American hero. Is an important event missing ...

Today, July 4, marks the 249 th birthday of the United States of America. That puts America 365 days from the big 250, a pretty good run for something as temporary-sounding as the “American Experiment ...