One of the highlights of the American summer is July 4th. Fireworks, parades, and barbecues are all staples of the ...

If we are to preserve and improve our democracy, the work must be our own and every individual citizen has a responsibility.

Columnist Issac J. Bailey plans to rewatch “Independence Day” this Fourth of July because he needs a reminder that the U.S.

And Douglass did so, it is worth noting, by championing the same founding principles that he celebrated in his Fourth of July ...

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There are few sights more dazzling than fireworks on the Fourth of July. Yet all the sparkle and sound on the most American ...

Amidst the list of America’s founding fathers who are inextricably linked with the 4th of July, one name sticks out: George Washington. Thomas Jefferson. Benjamin Franklin. Pyotr Ilyich ...

The celebration of the Declaration of Independence's semiquincentennial is a chance to broaden the historical narrative to ...

The battle site, Riverbend Park, has a history of human habitation dating back 5,000 years. The Second Seminole War was part ...

At each major crossroad in America’s history — the Revolutionary War, the westward migration, the Civil War, the Great ...

The Soldier and the Revolutionary War” opened June 7 on the Army’s 250th birthday. It has artifacts never before displayed ...

America the Beautiful” by Katharine Lee Bates is as much critique as celebration, writes documentary filmmaker. While Bates’ ...