The American Battlefield Trust Book Prize for History is like March Madness for the best books on military history.

Anecdotal evidence and empirical data show that Americans are infatuated with true crime, from cold-case television shows to...

Most of the Founding Fathers risked their lives fighting the British, worked tirelessly to unite the colonies or made...

Salem Poor was among the first Massachusetts men to join a militia as a "Minuteman," able to respond to British aggression at...

Word spread that a member of the royal family was holding court in Manhattan, so obviously, the rebels decided to do...

Revolutionary War history is filled with heroes and villains, and which is which depends on which side of the Atlantic you...

Benedict Arnold, the name that now means "traitor" to Americans, once stood for courage and military genius.

The Marquis de Lafayette's bearing was so authoritative that Congress commissioned him a major general when he was 19 years...

Jack Jouett warned the Virginia Assembly of the encroaching threat, braving a 40-mile ride over rain-roughened terrain and...

The decoration that would become known as the Purple Heart was awarded less than a year after Gen. George Washington designed...