Fourth of July is a complicated holiday for many Native Hawaiians who served in the U.S. military. There's a long history of ...

Bakels said the Seminoles' tactic was to fall back, luring the soldiers into a trap. Then, according to accounts of the ...

President Donald Trump 's lawyers referenced the War of 1812 in legal documents related to California Governor Gavin Newsom 's National Guard case. Writing in a response to a U.S. district court ...

Tchaikovsky was neither American, nor a founding father, but his “1812 Overture” has become the soundtrack to our ...

Independence Day celebrations are usually filled with fireworks, parades and patriotic festivities. So, how did it begin?

Friday's closing ceremony for the Danville Rotary Club’s Field of Honor — now something of a summer tradition in the city — ...

The first, local Flag Day observances came after the Civil War and eventually a federal law designated June 14 as Flag Day in 1949, under World War I combat veteran Harry Truman.

Capture of H.B.M. Frigate Macedonian by U.S. Frigate United States, October 25, 1812, 1852. Artist Thomas Chambers.© Mario Tama/Chip Somodevilla/Heritage Art, Heritage Images/Getty Images ...

The reverence for Old Glory that inspired Flag Day came decades after the lifetime of the woman often credited with sewing the first United States national flag. Betsy Ross may ...

Soldiers will wear period costumes from wars throughout U.S. history to march in the Army parade. 'It's a little hot, but we'll get used to it,' one said.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The woman often credited with sewing the first national U.S. flag — at the request of George Washington himself, her descendants claimed — might have been ...

More than 75 years after Flag Day became U.S. law, the stars and stripes grab our gaze these days in constant portraits of how Americans see their country's promise — ...