News from Manassas

News from Manassas

UPDATE (July 2, 2026): Today data center developer QTS has withdrawn its appeal to the Virginia Supreme Court and abandoned its effort to build the world’s largest data center adjacent to Manassas National Battlefield Park. This brings two and half years of...
The Eve of Independence

The Eve of Independence

This is the second in a regular series of short articles commemorating the 250th anniversary of American independence, tracing in words and pictures how Americans have fulfilled, and at times struggled to fulfill, the ideals of the Declaration of Independence. Make...
Independence Forever

Independence Forever

This is the first in a regular series of short articles commemorating the 250th anniversary of American independence, tracing in words and pictures how Americans have fulfilled, and at times struggled to fulfill, the ideals of the Declaration of Independence.  ...
The Seduction of Thomas Gage

The Seduction of Thomas Gage

Among the most curious prints from the early years of the American Revolution is a monochrome aquatint with etching of a properly dressed gentleman with his left hand gripping the pommel of his sword and his right arm draped around a bare-breasted woman whose arm is...
How Our Revolutionary War Began

How Our Revolutionary War Began

Late on the evening of April 18, 1775, nine hundred British Regulars set out through the dark streets of Boston. They were headed for Concord, a village sixteen miles west, where spies reported the colonists had accumulated a store of arms and ammunition, including...