The American Revolution Experience, an American Battlefield Trust’s free traveling exhibit to mark the country’s 250th ...

Jul. 21—LEOMINSTER — The patriotic handiwork of city resident Marie Flanagan is on display at the library in the form of a ...

History counts, and in honor of our country’s recent Independence Day celebration, here are 13 histories and biographies that entertain, enlighten and perhaps inspire. The selections are purely ...

Don’t get all cocky, you 13 original colonies. Yes, yes, 250 years, congratulations, enjoy the cake. But here on the West Coast, a whole continent away from your powdered periwigs and your Philly bell ...

Britain controlled vast tracts in North America beyond the original 13 Colonies. And the American invasion of Canada played a role in the final political settlement.

America's founding didn't happen at once in Philadelphia. Here, it was a slow, complex struggle involving Cherokee leaders and frontier settlers.

While America’s 250th birthday party may have ended, battles over the meaning of 1776 are rife. A sizeable swath of the ...

For centuries, honey bees introduced from Europe quietly became part of life across the Americas, pollinating crops and ...

From the very earliest days of independence, the struggle of African Americans for their rights has defined the idea of freedom in the United States.

A parish entry reveals an argument that proved pivotal to the abolitionist cause, at a time when an estimated 20,000 Black people were living in the country ...

In 1776, Southwest Florida was a British colony with stronger cultural and economic ties to Havana than to the American ...