How many times did David Beach apply for his Revolutionary War pension? How much did Joseph Smead of Massachusetts receive for his? Did Ephraim Blackmer ever get the land warrant he applied for after ...

The War of 1812, which lasted from 1812 until early 1815, was commemorated over the past few years, but the pensions resulting from that war should not be overlooked by genealogists. Former soldiers ...

UNDATED (CNN Newsource/CNN/WKRC) - Volunteers have been working with the National Archives to transcribe pension files from the Revolutionary War, discovering new insights into the lives and stories ...

Polk County dedicated a memorial to Pvt. Samuel Quinton, its only known Revolutionary War soldier. Quinton served in the South Carolina militia and fought in the Battle of Kings Mountain. He later ...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Danish fund manager AkademikerPension is excluding Israeli state assets, including government-controlled companies, from its investment portfolio, it says, due to the war in Gaza ...

The Berkeley Unified School District, or BUSD, school board passed a resolution Wednesday, Sept. 17, calling on the ...

If you can read cursive, the National Archives would like a word. Or a few million. More than 200 years worth of U.S. documents need transcribing (or at least classifying) and the vast majority from ...

With a straight and pious face, the Senate and House extended the civil-service pension system* to all elected Federal officials: namely, the President, the Vice President—and themselves. To be ...

Chandigarh: The Punjab and Haryana high court has held that the central govt should have come forward to grant the benefit of a war injury pension to the 1971 war veteran rather than raising an ...

Bullets don't discriminate between soldiers, so why does the govt? It's a question that's being raised by armed forces ...