The banks of the Ohio River were transformed into a living history lesson Monday as Louisville and Jeffersonville came ...

American history will come alive at Cook Forest State Park with a journey through various historical eras of the United States: French & Indian War, Colonial Period, Revolutionary ...

Meanwhile, the least popular era came about 100 years ago, when the country was plagued by the Great Depression. In the poll ...

The American Revolution, a six-part, 12-hour PBS documentary, is set to premiere in November, months before the nation's semiquincentennial.

If you've got a young history buff, Colonial Williamsburg is the perfect weekend getaway from DC that's both educational and ...

A PBS documentary “America’s Untold Story” on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, May 7 to May 9 at the Colonial Quarter living ...

Colonial Penn sells one type of life insurance ... Like most burial policies, it has a two-year waiting period, during which time there is a graded death benefit for non-accidental deaths.

Focused on the years 1750 to 1815, the event features more than 200 reenactors and demonstrators, shopping opportunities, live Colonial era ... attractions include a period-correct Punch & Judy ...

In a new book, the Pulitzer Prize winner Greg Grandin tells the history of the hemisphere from south of the border.

Patriot Benjamin Franklin broke ties with his loyalist son, who was the colonial governor of New Jersey. Meanwhile, Quaker and lawyer John Dickinson favored American liberty, but feared ...

British Regulars fire on New England colonial militia ... some dressed in period clothing, watch a reenactment celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Lexington and start of the American ...

Two hundred and fifty years ago, shots fired in Lexington and Concord set off the Revolutionary War. A new nation, independent from Britain, was about to be born. Before dawn on Saturday, the ...