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Ann Arbor Unearthing buried cemetery near Ann Arbor reveals early settlers, Revolutionary War soldier Published: Jun. 29, 2025, 8:00 a.m.
President Trump suggested bringing back the title secretary of war. It stopped being used in 1949 when the Department of Defense was formally established.
President Donald Trump said he wants to bring back a long-retired title: secretary of war. Why was it dropped in the first place?
A Revolutionary War-era boat is being reconstructed more than two centuries after being buried deep beneath Manhattan’s expanding shoreline. The New York State Museum in Albany will become a ...
US News: A revolutionary war-era gunboat, discovered at the World Trade Center site in 2010, is being meticulously reconstructed at the New York State Museum.
Visitors to the New York State Museum view a Revolutionary War-era gunboat that is being partially reconstructed, Friday, May 30, 2025, in Albany, New York. Photo by AP Photo/Michael Hill ALBANY, N.Y.
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Workers digging at Manhattan’s World Trade Center site 15 years ago made an improbable discovery: sodden timbers from a boat built during the Revolutionary War that had be… ...
Research assistant Marissa Agerton cleans a piece of wood from a Revolutionary War-era gunboat to prepare for the craft’s partial reconstruction at the New York State Museum, Friday, May 30 ...