7+ hour, 40+ min ago   (1413+ words) It is a town that was birthed by water. Williamston did not start with a mill, a courthouse, or an intersection of commercial trade, but with a spring. “Williamston has an unusual background,” said Marion Middleton, a local historian and…...

3+ hour, 36+ min ago   (95+ words) Revolutionary War veterans, early settlers’ memorial ceremony Aug. 29 in Ashville The Anniston Star The public is invited to attend a plaque dedication ceremony honoring St Clair County’s Revolutionary War Veterans and early settlers Saturday, Aug 29 at the Ashville…...

3+ hour, 31+ min ago   (247+ words) Lyndeborough dedicated a new Revolutionary War monument last Sunday, honoring more than 200 local men who served in the American Revolution and celebrating the nation’s semiquincentennial. Town Historian Jessie Salisbury cut the ribbon before a crowd of roughly 100 residents at Memorial…...

4+ hour, 20+ min ago   (91+ words) New Jersey Hills Media Group The Marquis de Lafayette will be the subject of a discussion of the North Jersey American Revolution Round Table. The North Jersey American Revolution Round Table (NJARRT) will focus on the Marquis de Lafayette, the…...

5+ hour, 46+ min ago   (348+ words) North Carolina\'s 1776 Constitution grew out of two crises: an east-west power struggle that erupted into the War of the Regulation, and a fight for political representation against an increasingly hostile English government. This lecture traces that story back to…...

6+ hour, 50+ min ago   (397+ words) Brooklyn spent the weekend looking back 250 years, commemorating the Battle of Brooklyn with solemn ceremonies, musical tributes and a large-scale reenactment of the Revolutionary War battle that forever changed the course of the American fight for independence. At Green-Wood Cemetery,…...

8+ hour, 30+ min ago   (559+ words) Revolutionary history came to life in North Yorkshire as visitors stepped back in time to explore the events that shaped the birth of the United States and the region's links to its founding. The event took place at Kiplin Hall…...

7+ hour, 55+ min ago   (776+ words) Standing beneath the spreading branches of a massive live oak, historian Garrison Marcoux tries to imagine what this scarred, struggling tree saw 245 years ago. Did one of the British soldiers encamped at this South Carolina crossroad near the end of…...

6+ hour, 48+ min ago   (980+ words) History books routinely talk about how George Washington and the Continental army escaped from Brooklyn after losing a major battle, turning a short-term defeat into a major victory. They, however, rarely explain who helped evacuate the 9,000-strong army after the…...

8+ hour, 30+ min ago   (1018+ words) The Declaration of Independence—as a bold act of secession—can be understood as one of the earliest major challenges to modern centralized sovereign authority within the emerging nation-state system. Understanding the Hobbesian nation-state is crucial to fully appreciating the…...