Colonial Flag and the Colonial Flag Foundation provide turnkey patriotic displays and historic flag exhibits to support ...

With a song from 1759 as a mile marker, pianist Lara Downes and historian Jill Lepore examine what this land was like just ...

On Jan. 29, 1820, 10 years after mental illness forced him to retire from public life, Britain's King George III, who lost the American colonies, died at the age of 82.

On Jan. 29, 1820, 10 years after mental illness forced him to retire from public life, Britain's King George III, who lost ...

It’s hard to say if Daisy Hernández has the best timing in the world or the worst. She thought about the question one morning, in her office at Northwestern University, where she is. It was a few ...

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster gave his final State of the State address Wednesday evening. Here’s what he said.

At the Battle of Valcour Island on Lake Champlain in the Revolutionary War, a gunboat called the Philadelphia for the ...

As we observe our nation’s 250th anniversary, each state will celebrate a slightly different history of its relationship with the United States. The Founding Fathers even chose the term United States ...

Federal Hall, at Wall and Broad streets, stands at the site where George Washington took the Oath of Office on April 30, 1789, to become the first U.S. president. Presidential, Congressional and Court ...

From plantations to political rhetoric, the term's evolution shows how a violent past can fade into metaphor, sometimes ...

According to the official Rhode Island website, the state was named by Dutch explorer Adrian Block. He originally named it "Roodt Eylandt," or "red island," referencing the red clay that lined the ...

In a library full of computers and people wearing hoodies and sneakers stood a woman who appeared to have come straight from ...