National Park Service archeologists working at a Revolutionary War battle site in Concord, Massachusetts, recently unearthed five musket balls that were fired during the world-changing event known as ...

Contrary to popular perception, the American Revolution wasn’t all muskets, bayonets and Mel Gibson running around with a ...

Archaeologists have unearthed part of an 18th-century musket at a colonial-era fort in Michigan. The serpent-shaped sideplate was found this week during an excavation at Colonial Michilimackinac in ...

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 ...

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, ...

TICONDEROGA — A rare British-made musket of the type used by American colonial soldiers during the French and Indian War has been donated to New York's Fort Ticonderoga. Curator Christopher Fox says ...