William Thompson deserves plaudits as one of many whose early service led to the signing of the Declaration of Independence ...

Four years of digging for artifacts in the Ligonier area have shed new light on a little-known “friendly fire” incident in ...

If I ever want to get a bridge named after me, I need to contribute to national unity. I’m more or less incapable of uniting anything more complex than peanut butter and jelly. This makes the job ...

At Fort Ligonier on Friday, excitement was in the air as it unveiled a new exhibit and talked about the ongoing archaeological work surrounding what is called George Washington's "friendly fire ...

I wanted to go in the middle of winter and walk the whole park on foot to relive the Continental Army’s experience. We know the story: how the soldiers marched from Trenton to Princeton, how they took ...

According to research done by the U.S. Army War College, William Thompson's commission as the colonel of the Pennsylvania ...

Valley Forge National Historical Park might be the most underappreciated 3,500 acres in Pennsylvania – a place where you can literally walk through the pages of American history while also getting ...

With one of the nation’s most famous immigrants watching, more than 100 people from 95 countries took the oath of allegiance ...

When Benjamin Patterson stood at the grave of a 23-year-old World War II combat engineer from North Lawrence, he didn’t just ...

When George Washington, from Virginia, arrived in Cambridge 250 years ago, one of the first things he did was talk to his ...

He concluded, he later wrote, that the troops were “ exceeding dirty & nasty people ” led by indifferent officers with an “ ...

On the Fourth of July, members of the military are calling on Congress to protect service members who disobey the president’s ...