After witnessing a string of fireballs streak across the sky in North America in 1860, the landscape painter rendered the ...

The American Revolution Museum at Yorktown will display this circa-1790 portrait of George Washington by American artist Charles Peale Polk (1767-1822), who portrays the general as the victor of the ...

Two hundred forty-nine years ago, on July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress voted to separate the American colonies from ...