As we approach the 250th anniversary next year of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence and the Revolutionary War that ensued, many Americans will look to the past, eager ...

“General Washington and Thomas Jefferson both said that the Battle of Kings Mountain was the turning point of the Revolutionary War,” according to playwright/author Robert Inman. “That’s the reason we ...

Wikimedia Commons/Christophe cagé The First Shot of the Civil War at Fort Sumter Confederate Lieutenant Henry S. Farley pulled the trigger of a large cannon at Fort Sumter at 4:30 a.m. on April 12, ...

On June 14, 1775, the Continental Congress called for 10 companies of expert riflemen to be organized and sent to Boston to assist the militia facing ...

Wikimedia Commons/Adam Cuerden Maj Della Raney Della Hayden Raney was born January 10, 1912, in Suffolk, Virginia to George ...