By Henry HoweDirector, Fort Jackson Museum CommunityOn April 19, 1775, as British Regulars retreated from Lexington and ...

While the Patriots were ultimately victorious in the American Revolution, choosing sides and deciding whether to fight in the war was far from an easy choice for American colonists. The great ...

April, and shouldn't be confused with the Patriot Day observation, which occurs in September to honor 9/11 victims.

Then and now, the definition of patriotism summons complicated feelings that speak to politics, partisanship, and how love of ...

In response, colonists met as usual (with the doors locked to keep soldiers out), juries refused to sit for Tory judges, and patriot leaders ... battles of the American Revolution.

At the battle of Beaufort, one of the patriot militias was nicknamed “the Jew Company” because 28 of its 40 members were Jewish. Yet belief persists that the American Revolution was somehow a ...

Foreign-Born American Patriots is a very useful book for anyone interested in learning more about the Revolution, especially since a number of these men are virtually invisible in standard accounts.