Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The thick wool worn in the 1800s can make for a sweaty September. This year’s Colonial Market Days and Encampment in Lebanon were ...

You can see cannon and musket firing demonstrations at Colonial Michilimackinac, but did you know you can fire them yourself? Guests have the option to open Colonial Michilimackinac for the day by ...

CONCORD, MASSACHUSETTS—According to a WBUR report, five musket balls were unearthed near the North Bridge at Minute Man National Historical Park, marked as the site of the beginning of the ...

FROM CONCORD. ARE IN A TOWN STEEPED IN TRADITION, WHERE REENACTMENTS BRING HISTORY TO LIFE. ARCHEOLOGISTS JUST UNEARTH LIVING ARCHIVES NOT SEEN IN 250 YEARS. REALLY. WE’RE LOOKING AT A FEW SECONDS, ...

Muskets will crack, cannons will roar, and indigo will take center stage as America’s colonial period and the Revolutionary Era come to life during Colonial Day at the Berkeley County Museum and Old ...

What do 18th century muskets have to do with allowing handguns in Connecticut state parks? It turns out, a lot. Testimony about Colonial-era gun laws dominated testimony on Tuesday, as a federal judge ...

CONCORD, Mass. (AP) — Nearly 250 years ago, hundreds of militiamen lined a hillside in Massachusetts and started firing a barrage of musket balls toward retreating British troops, marking the first ...

Men dressed as Minutemen fire salute on Old North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts, in April 1975, marking the 200th anniversary of the "shot heard round the world" and the start of the Revolutionary ...

Excavation on the Alamo’s Long Barrack area began about three weeks ago as part of efforts to research and preserve history, according to the Alamo’s website. Although rain delayed work during the ...