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 ...

Unlike the Continental Army, the Navy recruited both free and enslaved blacks from the very start of the Revolutionary War -- partly out of desperation for seamen of any color, and partly because ...

The annual New London Days are back in Campbell County, where you can see reenactments, artifacts and rich Revolutionary War-era history come to life. It is held between the area of 501 to 713 ...

"People are in a panic. They feel the country is going back to war," Ter Mammer-Male, an economist in Juba, told AFP. Forces supporting President Salva Kiir and his long-time rival, First Vice ...