The United States Navy is celebrating 250 years of service, sacrifice, and tradition, commemorating its founding on 1775.

Blaming the British for the destruction helped persuade some wavering colonists to back the fight for independence. But the ...

Burns’s 12-hour documentary about our national origin story is landing in the middle of a culture war. Yes, it’s complicated.

I have always been proud of my Polish heritage. So, with October being Polish Heritage Month, you might assume that my thoughts would be focused on Pulaski, Kosciuszko, Chopin and the like. But no, ...

While many learned about the American Revolution as beginning in the Northeast, some may not know Florida's role in the ...

In a sun-dappled, green cathedral of towering oaks, sycamores and hollies, around 400 people gathered on Oct. 4 to honor the ...

Oct. 13, 2025 , is a milestone for sailors past and present as the U.S. Navy celebrates its 250th birthday. From battling British ships in the Caribbean, fighting pirates off the Barbary Coast to ...

Ken Burns joins David Frum to discuss how his new documentary captures both the triumphs and tragedies of the nation’s ...

At the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown, stories of citizens and soldiers during the Revolutionary period unfold daily at the expansive history museum through immersive films, artifact-filled ...

The Seawolf-class submarine USS Connecticut (SSN-22) remains in dry dock four years after its October 2021 collision with an ...

The prevailing story of tropical modernism in the Global South has long overlooked the contributions of local architects and ...

Two Clydesdale horses pull the hearse bearing the remains of eight young children from colonial-era Maryland at the beginning ...