A rare powder horn that belonged to an African American soldier killed in the Revolutionary War has gone on display in Philadelphia. The elaborately carved cow’s horn belonged to Gershom Prince, who ...

An 18th-century gunpowder container made from an oxen horn has been returned to the Detroit-area museum it was stolen from more than 60 years ago. Recently recovered by the FBI, the Nowlin Powder Horn ...

For early Europeans, the mythical horned horse was real, and so was unicorn medicine. It turns out, however, that unicorns ...

TWO INTRIGUING objects displayed together in a second-floor gallery at the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester may seem out of place, at least at first glance. These objects were made from the horns ...

3 of 6 — Some of the stolen firearms and other items discovered by the FBI in their investigation of Michael Corbett. Shown here are a rare Colt Whitneyville Walker revolver (lower left row marked "CT ...

A Berkshire Eagle reader presented a mystery: What did his ancestor carve on a powder horn in 1776? Before we consider what Benjamin Markham, of Tyringham, carved, we might clear up two other ...

A 243-year-old piece of history was recently returned to the family of its original owner, Lieutenant John Jenkins. The Revolutionary War officer’s six-times-great-grandson, Richard Jenkins of ...

TICONDEROGA, N.Y. -- A rare powder horn carried by a Connecticut soldier during the French and Indian War has been donated to Fort Ticonderoga in upstate New York. Officials at the tourist attraction ...

The convergence of history, culture, memory and legacy was clear to the handful of people gathered in the secured basement of the Museum of the American Revolution. On a small velvet pillow sat the ...

As this column is published, the Northeast is waiting for the moon to pass between the earth and sun – plunging us into darkness during the day. In olden times, early mankind would worry that the ...