The men who served with him were German, Irish and Scottish settlers. They were fiercely independent frontiersmen, farmers and artisans who had settled in the wilds near the forks of the Allegheny, ...

An easy downtown walk reveals Cumberland County’s overlooked role in the American Revolution.

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Historian and author James Nelson talked about the start of the American Revolutionary War. This lesson details the events of the 1775 American ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WESTFIELD — The Historical Commission is sponsoring an event on the Old Burying Grounds on June 14 at 1 p.m. as part of the 250th ...

From the first shots at Lexington and Concord in 1775 to Cornwallis’s surrender at Yorktown in 1781, the American ...

KITTANNING — In April 1775, William Thompson, a man rarely if ever mentioned in American history books, became the first commissioned colonel in the Continental Army of a rifle battalion in the 1st ...

KITTANNING — In April 1775, William Thompson, a man rarely if ever mentioned in American history books, became the first commissioned colonel in the Continental Army of a rifle battalion in the 1st ...