To celebrate the country's 250th anniversary, an Ohio group is working to put all of the state's Revolutionary War veteran ...

Tom Hanks' forgotten historical drama series, starring Paul Giamatti as one of America's founding fathers, is making a ...

When we commemorate the formal birthday of the United States of America, we don’t just celebrate a place, a set of ...

John Adams, for what it's worth, reportedly turned down invitation to July 4 events as he still believed it should be ...

This year, Independence Day coincided with another historic birthday: Quincy’s. It has been 400 years since English colonists ...

In 1865, Congress passes the 13th Amendment. The war ends, Lincoln is assassinated and the states ratify the amendment later ...

Founding Father John Adams once wrote that American independence should be celebrated with "illuminations from one end of ...

From live battle reenactments to walking in the footsteps of troops and visiting historical markers, these destinations offer ...

The Architecture of Presidential Commemoration” surveys the history of presidential memorialization, a complicated tale.

Joel Adams, Esq., has been dead for more than 200 years. After 83 years, the Revolutionary War veteran born in the mid-18th century died on June 5, 1823. His headstone is a carved sandstone slab ...