One of the most iconic military longarms ever made, the British Land Pattern musket, more commonly known as the "Brown Bess," ...

At this point in time, 120 years after its introduction, we hunters should be very familiar with the .30-06 Springfield. But ...

Historical reenactor Dave Barno demonstrates how to load and fire a musket from the Revolutionary War era during an ...

American history has always been an important part of the annual Gunmakers Fair at Kempton in the five years it has been held ...

A look at nine firearms whose engineering ideas arrived long before the market, military doctrine, or manufacturing world was ...

West Virginia has plenty of state symbols, be it the black bear as the state animal, the cardinal as the state bird or the ...

In 1776, Thomas Paine's Common Sense dismantled the moral and political foundations of British rule and argued persuasively for independence for an audience craving change. By the end of the ...

Rifles brought from Europe were of little use in the American wilderness. So hunters, frontiersmen, and revolutionaries began demanding something new from their gunsmiths ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The Continental Army soldiers and militiamen making up what passed for ...

‘Living historians’ have stepped back into the spotlight as US prepares to celebrate its semiquincentennial this week In 1972, a young man named Joe Ryan was teaching his middle school class in ...

I have a love-hate relationship with Mel Gibson’s film, “The Patriot.” On the one hand, it’s a highly entertaining movie about a topic virtually untouched by Hollywood. On the other, the movie is so ...

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