Famous foreigners have often attracted large American crowds, but neither the Beetles nor the Rolling Stones nor Winston ...

"The Six Triple Eight," a Netflix film directed by Tyler Perry, opens on the horrors of war in Europe. The year is 1943, and ...

The Farewell Tour Lafayette first set foot on American shores on June 13, 1777, after fifty-four days at sea, at the south inlet of North Island, South Carolina, not far from Georgetown.  He was ...

During his nationwide tour 50 years later, he was the last surviving general from the war.

“Lafayette was a man ahead of his time,” says Marcil. Raised by the women in his family after his father was killed in the Seven Years’ War when he was 2, Marcil says, Lafayette became a ...

And so it was that General Lafayette, the Revolutionary War hero from France, sat down for breakfast at the Frost Inn in downtown South Berwick, the current site of the Stage House Inn.

Marquis de Lafayette’s story echoes through the Roanoke Valley with a celebration of the 200th anniversary of his farewell tour.

Historians are retracting Marquis de Lafayette's national tour across 24 states 200 years ago. Events are being held in ...

The Lafayette Escadrille: The American Volunteers Who Flew For France in World War One is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV ...

Americans turned out in droves to catch a glimpse of the aging Revolutionary War hero at every opportunity. Roads between Richmond and Raleigh were so rough that Lafayette’s entourage was ...

Long before the audiences of the musical “Hamilton” experienced him as the fast-rapping “America’s favorite fighting ...