Job Lucas was born 259 years ago today, on 2 November 1757 in Virginia. He was the son of my 7th-great-grandparents Edward Lucas and Elizab...

Today I visited Tappan, Rockland County, New York. I had lunch at the '76 House , the oldest tavern in New York. Major John André , who ...

Encampment at Valley Forge, 1778. Steel engraving by George W. Boynton, 1830. In Sparkes, Jared. The Life of George Washington . Boston: T...

Today I visited the Hermitage in Ho-Ho-Kus, Bergen County, New Jersey. The house was named a National Historic Landmark because of its Go...

Available from Veterans Day Poster Gallery , U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Public and Intergovernmental Affairs. On Vet...

General Casimir Pulaski plaque, Cambridge Commons, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Photo by Daderot (Own work) [Public domain], 14 February 201...

 Last page of the Treaty of Paris, 1783. Our Documents . Also available from Wikimedia Commons . 23 years ago today, the Treaty of Pari...

On 25 August 1916, President Woodrow Wilson signed the act that established the National Park Service . Every year on August 25, the Nation...

My 5th-great-grandfather Stephen Mayo was a private in the Revolutionary War. He was a minuteman in Captain Thompson's company under Ma...

Image from shamurah on Ancestry.com Rebecca Dawson was born in Virginia on 5 January 1814. On 24 November 1834, she married my 5th-grea...

Halifax Resolves plaque, North Carolina State Capitol, Raleigh, North Carolina. Photo by Daderot [Public domain], 5 October 2011 . Availa...

The Encampment at Valley Forge, PA. Lossing, Benson John. Field Book of the Revolution . Vol. 2. New York: Harper Brothers, 1855. Page 128...

Available from Veterans Day Poster Gallery , U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Public and Intergovernmental Affairs. On Vet...

My 6th-great-grandfather Francis Hardgrave was born on 5 March 1745 in Augusta County, Virginia. He was the son of James Hardgrave and Eliza...

On 19 October 1781, General Charles Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown , and the American Revolution ended. On 19 August 1781, the Contin...

When I became a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution , I qualified through my 5th-great-grandfather Stephen Mayo. Stephen was ...

Documenting the American South contains primary sources (texts, images, and audio files) on southern history, literature, and culture. It i...

On Independence Day, I would like to honor my Revolutionary War ancestors: My 6th-great-grandfather Francis Hardgrave was born on March 5,...