Ted Widmer, a consulting editor for this special issue of Globe Ideas, is the author of “Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days ...

highlighting its origins from various colonial flags brought by European explorers. It discusses the significance of the flag during the American Revolution, the adoption of the first official ...

At mid-month, the royal governor of Massachusetts, a military man, planned to confiscate the gunpowder and weapons rumored to ...

Trump is not the first American leader to dream of northern expansion. History suggests these designs reveal simmering ...

For Greenland to become independent, its communities may need to become independent of Nuuk and not just Copenhagen ...

All over the country, cities and towns are going all out for next year’s semiquincentennial party. Here are our 9 picks for ...

Pulaski Day festivities at Chicago's Polish Museum of America honored the "Father of American Cavalry," 280 years after his ...

Across the nation, celebrations have already begun for America’s 250th birthday, which will be marked on July 4, 2026, ...

Then and now, the definition of patriotism summons complicated feelings that speak to politics, partisanship, and how love of ...

America celebrates its 250th anniversary as a nation on July 4, 2026, the date the Declaration of Independence was signed.

Approximately 20 students staged a sit-in inside the Administration Building on Wednesday, March 26, marking the anniversary ...