(Tribune News Service) — In his capacity as site manager for the Fort Necessity National Battlefield, Brian Reedy has spent many years telling visitors that he and fellow National Park Service ...

In the first engagement of the French and Indian War, a Virginia militia under 22-year-old Lieutenant Colonel George ...

Feb. 10 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1763, the Treaty of Paris ended the Seven Years' War between Britain and Spain and also the French and Indian War, with France ceding Quebec to Great ...

“I could spend the night writing to you,” Marie wrote. “I cannot wait to possess you,” Anne expressed. Both women were writing to their husbands, French sailors on the same ship, unaware that the men ...

The Battle of Lake George will be re-enacted Sept. 22-24, 2023, in a free event featuring 250 costumed interpreters of history. LAKE GEORGE – More than 250 re-enactors will begin gathering at Lake ...

The American Revolution was a defining moment in the history of Pennsylvania. Neighbor turned against neighbor amidst a desperate civil war in colonial America. Indigenous societies were uprooted from ...

THE COLD JOURNEY—Grace Zaring Stone—Morrow ($2.50). In the literary as well as the geographical sense there are still wide open spaces in the U. S. Such trail-blazing authors as James Fenimore Cooper.

Characters including George Washington, European generals, Iroquois scouts, sachems, warriors, early American settlers struggling to be neutral cast the story of raids on German Flats, now Herkimer.