Many residents of Tehran managed to get out of town when the U.S. and Israel attack began, but others who could not described ...

New York City area waterways gave British forces a strong position in key Westchester faceoffs against American troops in the Revolutionary War.

The Yorktown Battlefield in Yorktown, Virginia, is where the Revolutionary War essentially ended, and you can walk the same ground where freedom was won. Look, I’ll be honest with you: history class ...

Over the past 30 years, our family has walked the brick path of Boston’s Freedom Trail, from the Custom House, the site of ...

SANFORD, Fla. (WHSV) - Fourteen years ago on Feb. 26, 2012, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot and killed in Sanford, ...

Observances of the 50th anniversary of the admission of Nebraska into the Union were held at churches and Sunday schools around the state on Feb. 25, 1917. A filibuster by Omaha Sen. Machaela ...

As the nation prepares to celebrate 'America 250' this July, revisit Revolutionary-era Mohawk Valley Battlefields, beginning with Battle of Fort Bull.

Nearly 165 years ago on Feb. 25, 1862, Congress passed the Legal Tender Act, creating the nation’s first form of paper ...

Billy Flora was a free Black man from Portsmouth. He fought in two key battles during the American Revolution — the Battle of Great Bridge and the Siege of Yorktown.

World War II proved that control of the oceans could determine the outcome of a global conflict. While battleships had long ...

On this day in history, 1987, Civil Rights leader E.D. Nixon passes away.

Observances of the 50th anniversary of the admission of Nebraska into the Union were held at churches and Sunday schools ...