click image for close-up This portrait of an unidentified Revolutionary War sailor was painted in oil by an unknown artist, circa 1780. Prior to the war, many blacks were already experienced ...

While the Patriots were ultimately victorious in the American Revolution ... what mattered most was freedom. As the Revolutionary War spread through every region, those in bondage sided with ...

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.

Let us know! The personal effects carried by a soldier during the American Revolutionary War, which earlier this year were featured on the PBS program “Antiques Roadshow,” are now on display in ...