While loading up three ships bound for the New World, the English imagined the incredible profits from the resources across ...

John Adams and John Quincy Adams were public figures who made significant contributions to the founding and expansion of the ...

Chris Anderson was leafing through various books in Allegheny College’s archival collection when he came across a long “lost” artifact. “I was planning an event and I was looking randomly through some ...

As the 250th anniversary of America’s independence approaches, the president is moving to put his stamp on how the nation’s ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The American Revolution began 250 years ago, in a blast of gunshot and a trail of colonial spin. Starting with Saturday's anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the ...

In new book 'A Promised Land,' history professor Adam Jortner looks at the role of Jews - then just 0.1% of the population - ...

Inside the steeple of Old North Church and among the Southern Colonies, less familiar stories of the events from 250 years ...

Saturday marks the 250th anniversary of the first day of the 3,059-day war that birthed the modern world. Commemorating the April 19, 1775, skirmishes at Lexington Green and Concord Bridge begins a ...

The BBC's Katty Kay speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Rick Atkinson as America marks 250 years since ...

Rick Atkinson’s new Revolutionary War history is an unblinking portrait of wonderful nation’s birthing.

Leaders of state humanities councils throughout the country say federal funding cuts by President Donald Trump's ...