On April 26, 1777, during the Revolutionary War, a large British raiding party attacked the American supply depot at Danbury, Connecticut, burning houses and barns and destroying stores of shoes, ...

The film recounts the early life of George Washington, highlighting his upbringing on a Virginia tobacco plantation. It ...

Early in his speech, Trump compared himself to George Washington, the first person to hold the office ... Trump says it's ...

A letter written by George Washington in 1777 that is valued at $150,000 is up for sale this Presidents Day. The letter, acquired by the Raab Collection, was written during the Revolutionary War ...

On Jan. 24, 1776, Henry Knox, a bold, portly bookseller and former Bostonian, solved the first problem. Having seized Fort Ticonderoga, in upstate New York, he and his men dragged the garrison’s ...

George Washington, who had been leading the battle ... raid was a relatively small expedition in the bloody, drawn-out war for independence that would go on for six more years.

Raab Collection A rare letter from George Washington expressing his faith in ... who had been waging a brutal war for almost two years. In a letter to Washington, Brigadier General Samuel Holden ...

South Carolina on Friday is scheduled to put the first person to death by firing squad in the U.S. in 15 years. Brad Sigmon, ...

The ten universities include: Columbia University, George Washington University ... students have held large demonstrations at universities protesting Israel’s war in Gaza. Last year, the New York ...

The war of independence had been won, but the states were still scrambling to decipher how they would interact with each other and with Congress. Before George Washington resigned from his post as ...

But in Boston, when word got out that George Washington’s books were destined for the collection of their British cousins, a bidding war erupted. The asking price? Five thousand dollars — or about the ...