American history remains relentlessly unkind to Benedict Arnold, the notorious "turncoat" who abandoned the Continental Army and took up arms for the British in the Revolutionary War. But perhaps that ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — A trio of local filmmakers are challenging viewers to reconsider a historical figure whose name is synonymous with treason in their new cinematic documentary “Benedict Arnold: ...

Benedict Arnold, the Connecticut native whose name has been synonymous with the word traitor for 240 years, is getting a fairer shake thanks to a new movie. “Benedict Arnold: Hero Betrayed,” a ...

PLATTSBURGH – He was both a patriot and a traitor, making Benedict Arnold’s life story fascinating to filmmakers who just shot a documentary about him around Plattsburgh and Ticonderoga. “Benedict ...

Reenactors in colonial garb read by lamplight inside the historic Nathan Denison House in Forty Fort. Their clothing and the furnishings would have been familiar to Benedict Arnold and the characters ...

The Broadway musical “Hamilton” had a substantial effect, changing the way many Americans now view a major figure from the Revolutionary War era. More recently, the makers of a documentary hope their ...

Benedict Arnold is the supreme hero/traitor of American history. Americans were in awe of his military exploits in the taking of Fort Ticonderoga, and as the spearhead of General Horatio Gates’s ...

The two-faced silhouette of Benedict Arnold on the cover of Murphy’s (An American Plague) biography furnishes a telling image: one profile looks sharp and stately; the other has the crooked features ...

The British officer with whom Arnold had been colluding was captured by the American forces. The documents he carried laid out the plans for Benedict Arnold's handover of West Point to the British.