Culper Spy Ring News Today

What to do this weekend in Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia, including Ice Yards, museum exhibits and movies.

Amid British-occupied NYC, the Culper Spy Ring emerged—patriots weaving secrets in plain sight. Their covert web changed history's course.

How patriot spies—and their commander—used a secret “medicine” factory to send coded messages during the American Revolution.

Unveiling the enigmatic Robert Townsend: From merchant to shadow patriot in the Culper Ring, shaping America's destiny through espionage.

OREM, Utah (Good Things Utah) – As part of the American Freedom Festival taking place over the Fourth of July holiday in Provo, neighboring Orem is hosting the Annual Colonial Heritage Festival – a free historically immersive event for ages celebrating colonial life as it was around the time of the American Revolution War. The […]

Some historians hope commemorations will focus on more than just the battles between patriots and loyalists, but include the history of the first peoples of Long Island.

Volunteers are painstakingly recreating the 24-foot-long wooden vessel in a boat house overlooking Port Jefferson Harbor the spies used for raids and secret missions.

Culper Spy Ring, also called Culper Ring, American intelligence organization that was put together and managed by Maj. Benjamin Tallmadge for the Continental Army during the American Revolution. It operated in British-controlled New York City from 1778 to 1783. The ring was named for the operational names of two of its members: Abraham Woodhull (code-named Samuel Culper) and Robert Townsend (code-named Culper, Jr.). It comprised several other agents, including Caleb Brewster, Austin Roe, Anna S...

The Charters of Freedom is a grouping of America’s founding documents. It encompasses the Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. These are the preeminent

“One Hale, in New York, on suspicion of spying, was taken up, and without ceremony, to the execution point and hung up.” This single sentence, announcing the death of Nathan Hale to New Londoners, app...