history

Thanks to the kindness of a stranger in Syracuse, Darlene Priest and her family now have precious memories back that they thought were lost forever.

Visitors will once again be able to climb to the top of a 19th-century stone tower that was built in New York's Hudson Valley to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the end of the American Revolution.

Democratic members of New York's congressional delegation want to rename a Veterans Affairs hospital after a woman who fought alongside American troops during the Revolutionary War.

A monument at the site of Gen. George Washington's final New York headquarters to commemorate the end of the Revolutionary War will reopen next month.

A long-missing peace pipe tomahawk President George Washington gave to a Seneca Indian leader in the late 18th century has been returned to the tribe in western New York.

Rare artifacts linked to a legendary figure from Colonial American warfare will be displayed during a one-day battle re-enactment being held at Fort Ticonderoga.

Archaeology work continues at an upstate New York construction site where the skeletal remains of several people have been found at what's believed to be a Revolutionary War burial ground.

An upstate New York historical organization has received a grant to conserve a nearly century-old mural depicting significant battles fought in northeastern New York.

Skeletal remains of as many as 11 people believed to have died during the Revolutionary War have been uncovered at a construction site in upstate New York, a lawyer for the couple who owns the property told The Associated Press Tuesday.

Plans have been approved to turn a building central to Saranac Lake's historic role in caring for tuberculosis patients into a museum.