So Cole wrote to the U.S. government to ask for a pension made possible by a series of laws passed in the 1800s. ...

Nearly 5,000 volunteers have transcribed roughly 100,000 pension documents from the Revolutionary War. With 2.4 million pages ...

Before the Revolutionary War, the biggest threat to locals were ... Bryan found old receipts in the National Archive records ...

When Martha Ballard began her diary in 1785, the Revolutionary War had been over for just a year. The states, still a confederation and almost entirely agrarian, had a total population of under 4 ...

The day ended in a British retreat to Boston. But the war would be long — John Adams had predicted it might span 10 years — and the outcome never assured. On June 17, the Americans ...

A monument to the Revolutionary War — and marking the victory of 24 Patriots over a British force nearly three times their number — will be erected at Edgefield’s Courthouse Square next summer.

As we pause and recognize our veterans this month, one teen in East Haddam has spent months making sure those who served in ...