While women in New Jersey had few rights, they stepped up during the Revolution, caring for troops, loading cannon in battle, ...

A young New Yorker’s letter to her cousin in London showed how colonial women in the late 1700s were waging their own battles ...

In 1776, Cherokee leaders looked for ways to navigate a foreboding future. Nanyehi, a.k.a. Nancy Ward, is venerated and ...

WASHINGTON — About 40 of us commoners are hanging around Statuary Hall at the United States Capitol, waiting for the King of ...

These schools were radical for their time as they countered the rigid Victorian association of women with domestic work.

Lydia Darragh was a pacifist and already led a very busy life in her adopted city of Philadelphia where she worked as a ...

This year, as the nation celebrates its 250th anniversary, The Providence Journal is taking a look at how everyday life ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a broad conception of birthright citizenship, rejecting President Donald Trump’s ...

For African Americans, the revolution carried both hope and contradiction. Thousands of Black men fought for the Patriot ...

As one of the only women planning the March on Washington, Dorothy Height organized the logistics, mobilized the crowds, and ...

The Children’s Museum of the Upstate is teaching kids about the Revolutionary War with an interactive new exhibit.

The millions of people who inhabited colonial America left traces of their lives behind—from George Washington’s bed to a ...