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The American Revolution, a six-part, 12-hour PBS documentary, is set to premiere in November, months before the nation's ...
Last month, the Richmond museum opened its exhibition, “Give Me Liberty: Virginia & the Forging of a Nation,” with an array ...
The mobile museum was most recently at Colonial Williamsburg’s three-day VA250 planning conference known as “A Common Cause to All.” The “Give Me Liberty” exhibit is at the Virginia ...
According to many, this site is like a Disney theme park for history fanatics. Plus, Colonial Williamsburg's appeal isn't just for kids but also for anyone who feels young at heart. Visitors to ...
Among the most evocative looted object is Tipu Sultan’s mechanical tiger, a wooden automaton depicting a tiger mauling a British soldier To be honest, I don’t like to visit British museums.
York County now was up to the top of its boots in America’s Revolution. That initial call for a unit of York County riflemen ...
New England Minutemen, some dressed for war in their finest clothes and at least one fellow wearing his wedding suit, fought the Revolutionary War’s first battles against British soldiers at ...
They lie in mass graves, many of which were dug by the SS guards under the watchful eye of British soldiers as they attempted to prevent the continued outbreak of deadly disease caused by poor ...
British soldiers were still being lifted from the Dunkirk beaches and brought back across the Channel to England as the newspaper went to press. The Express described their rescue as “one of the ...