To celebrate the country's 250th anniversary, an Ohio group is working to put all of the state's Revolutionary War veteran ...

Some exhibits and events are already underway in Providence and Newport to mark the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of ...

Millions of protesters have denounced President Donald Trump as a would-be autocrat and marched under the banner “No Kings.” ...

The population of the United States has grown almost 123 times since the first federal census was conducted after the ...

A volunteer searching the archives of the American Baptist in Massachusetts has found a nearly 180-year-old document shedding ...

Being a Virginian made Washington a symbol of the Continental Congress’s effort to show that beleaguered Boston was not alone ...

On July 3, 1863, the Union army under the command of Gen. George Meade defeated Confederate forces commanded by Gen. Robert E ...

The contours of this legacy are still contested, as they and so much else were at the time of their drafting. Yet, when Americans allow their disagreements to get too heated — or, worse, when they are ...

So Parliament took a new approach. It passed laws—the Sugar Act and Stamp Act— to raise revenue directly, bypassing the ...

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