The original 13 British colonies that made up the early United States had very different populations with decidedly different ...

Maybe Harrisburg’s connections to the Revolutionary War aren’t obvious. No battles raged here. No signers of the Declaration ...

America’s xenophobia and racism are again manifesting. On Dec. 2, the current president of the United States engaged in a racist tirade during a cabinet meeting, denigrating Somali immigrants as ...

Although our nation will celebrate its birth in July of this year, its story of independence begins several years prior. Throughout the times beginning in about 1773 the flames for freedom were being ...

Girl Scouts singing folk songs, a flag-waving party and a Times Square ball drop are among the planned Semiquincentennial ...

Alastair Crooke, a former British ambassador, stated in a recent interview in reference to European and American political ...

During a talk in Palm Beach, filmmaker Ken Burns discussed the ideas behind the U.S. Revolutionary War, the subject of his ...

The dispute over Greenland is ultimately a North American dispute, and its logic is rooted firmly in the Monroe Doctrine, which has been guiding American policy off and on since 1823.

A local Daughters of the American Revolution chapter plants and dedicates a Liberty Tree in Winter Park’s Central Park.

President Trump has criticized a deal between Britain and Mauritius over the Chagos Islands, calling it "an act of GREAT ...

The plane, organized by the National Archives, will take rare 18th-century documents around the country in a tour loosely ...

Today, we celebrate the towering life and legacy of Benjamin Franklin—printer and philosopher, inventor and diplomat, public ...