On farmland outside Hurricane, Liberty Village brings America’s founding history to life.

Despite their many differences, the North American colonies eventually came together as one country – the United States of America. It’s that acceptance of other cultures, other ideas, other people, ...

Pasquale Paoli was a “small fish fighting an entire empire.” Four thousand miles away, the founding fathers were watching and ...

One tarnished silver coin at a time, the ground is yielding new evidence that in the late 1600s, one of the world’s most ruthless pirates wandered the American colonies with impunity. Newly surfaced ...

“Territorial empire has mattered for the United States, even if most people on the U.S. mainland are only vaguely aware of its colonial history.” For an empire, the United States hides it well. In his ...

In colonial America, it was firearms from other countries that armed soldiers, but for most of the civilian populace, American-made fowlers fit the bill.