On March 5, 1770, British soldiers fired into a crowd of Boston colonists near the Custom House on King Street. Five ...

SPRING HILL—The Wellington at Seven Hills 55-plus community celebrated Independence Day in style. On the morning of our ...

Little white flags peer out of the earth on a Lower Paxton Township roadside. And in recent weeks, you might have seen volunteers laboring among them near a fenced-in cemetery. The flags are the ...

The countdown to the 250th anniversary of American independence has begun—here are 9 museum exhibitions to add to your ...

And Sheeran still enjoys some uniquely American traditions himself, and has said before that the one and only Luke Combs took him to Twin Peaks for the first time, and also taught him how to shotgun a ...

Parliament’s Stamp Act tax of the mid-1760s ignited the Anglo-American conflict. Yet, as historians broadly agree, it was ...

When George Washington, from Virginia, arrived in Cambridge 250 years ago, one of the first things he did was talk to his ...

It is time once again to celebrate the red, white and blue. Of course, by that, I mean the Union Jack, the flag of the United ...

He concluded, he later wrote, that the troops were “ exceeding dirty & nasty people ” led by indifferent officers with an “ ...

The United States of America is a product of Britain, fueled by the bold practitioners of Enlightenment thought. All the ...

Long Island’s newest steakhouse is a fascinating nod to the Culper spy ring, a local group of Revolutionary War double agents ...

And literature, come on. C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Dickens, Dahl, Doyle, Austen, Woolf, and J. K. Rowling, to start. The entire world of Harry Potter has captivated generations of readers worldwide, ...