Pierre L'Enfant was a lowly French engineer when he met George Washington at Valley Forge. Washington recruited him to make the design for the nation's new capital city. L'Enfant made the plans, but ...

John Ish was born in 1754. Some sites say he was born in the colonies; the Daughters of the American Revolution list his ...

On this edition of Jukebox Journey, Kevin serves up a modern score for the story of how General George Washington’s troops endured the long, cold winter of 1778 in Valley Forge and emerged poised to ...

From the American Freedom Train and a Bicentennial Wagon Train to stars and stripes and everything red, white and blue.

As part of the 250th festivities, the Freedom Plane will be zooming around the U.S. to take at least 10 documents to eight ...

The plane, organized by the National Archives, will take rare 18th-century documents around the country in a tour loosely ...

Ten documents from the nation’s founding era are leaving their home at the National Archives in D.C. and hitting the skies ...

BOYS Albemarle 51, Western Albemarle 43Alleghany 60, Fort Defiance 49Altavista 80, William Campbell 40Annandale 48, Mount Vernon 24Appomattox 50, Chatham 42Bayside 57, Ocean Lakes 55Blessed ...

On March 10, 1778, Gotthold Frederick Enslin became the first soldier to be tried, convicted, and expelled from the ...

Step into history like never before. Relive the Revolutionary War’s defining moments as they unfold in vivid detail—from the first shots fired at Lexington and Concord igniting the fight for freedom, ...

While George Washington’s army waged war against Britain, Yellow Springs Hospital fought a deadlier enemy: contagious disease.

It has been years of planning and executing, but the majority of the largest renovation ever at George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate is complete just in time for the nation’s 250th birthday. “If ...