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Have you ever been asked, “What is the 4th of July?” but never knew how to respond in detail? July 4th (also known as ...
Flag Day commemorates June 14, 1776, which is the day the Continental Congress agreed on what the nation’s flag would look like. In 1916, President Wilson issued a proclamation of June 14 as ...
Flag Day commemorates June 14, 1776, which is the day the Continental Congress agreed on what the nation’s flag would look like. In 1916, President Wilson issued a proclamation of June 14 as ...
For Pride Month, the Museum of the American Revolution is offering a tour following the footsteps of a Quaker once named Jemima Wilkinson before being reborn to preach God's word.
“It wasn’t illegal what they did.” Pennsylvania lawmakers took a major step last week in adding more state input when both Republicans and Democrats in the House of Representatives passed a bill in a ...
Hundreds of people gathered outside the Washington County Courthouse Saturday morning to protest President Donald Trump and his administration’s policies as part of a nationwide “No Kings” rally. It ...
It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after Civil War's end and two ...
Once called 'ordinaries,' these historic inns and taverns offer a glimpse to NJ's history and some are connected to Revolutionary War.
“Because 1776, Fourth of July, where we’re celebrating freedom and liberty and all of that, that did not include my descendants,” Brown said. “Black people in America were still enslaved.
House lawmakers from Delaware County are leading efforts to regulate private equity transactions after the closure of Crozer Health last month.
Virginians in central and eastern Virginia have been celebrating the 1775 campaign of the colony’s last royal governor, John Murray, the 4th Earl of Dunmore. Here’s a book that tells you ...