Washington’s Headquarters welcomes Matthew Thorenz for a talk entitled: “Substitutes, Servants and Soldiers: The Black ...

Soldiers stored their weapons’ black powder in a cow horn with a stopper in the end to keep it dry. Many of the horns have delicately hand-carved, individualized designs.

Wikimedia Commons/John Steeple Davis Fort Ticonderoga’s Bloodless Capture Fort Ticonderoga guarded key water routes between ...

Wikimedia Commons/Adam Cuerden Maj Della Raney Della Hayden Raney was born January 10, 1912, in Suffolk, Virginia to George ...

The men and women who risked their lives, families, homes and jobs to fight for independence were honored at an America 249th Anniversary Celebration July 5 in Rapid City.

The hero of the American Revolution was really the stubborn, foot-slogging regular soldier who was armed with a musket and a bayonet and a bitter resolve.

While hunters and their rifles helped wage psychological warfare, the American victory can actually be attributed to smoothbore muskets.

A single-sheet document of handwritten brown ink on off-white paper that lists soldiers, both black and white, and the cost of supplies for each man for the year 1781.

A new book explores how painters, sculptors and writers, especially women and people of color, used their craft to advocate ...

While their images might not be immortalized on dollar bills or their stories ingrained into every high school syllabus, these lesser-known figures nonetheless played critical roles in the shaping of ...

At least 36 Black Civil War soldiers and sailors are known to have come to Montana after the war. Likely the first to serve in the Army was Pvt. Charles Wright, Company B, 1st Kansas Infantry ...

Buffalo soldiers under the direction of John “Blackjack” Pershing were tasked with chasing down Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa.