The indispensable Library of America has produced a valuable collection of documents and contemporary accounts of the War of 1812. The war was ostensibly fought over British attempts to restrict U.S.

July 4, also known as Independence Day, marks the day the Declaration of Independence was adopted and the 13 North American colonies officially separated from Great Britain. As the Fourth of July ...

Some Americans began celebrating the very same year, though the practice wouldn’t become widespread until the aftermath of the War of 1812. Congress finally passed a bill making Independence Day ...

Kira Rudik’s perspective on the war in Ukraine is reminiscent of the War of 1812 (“Ukraine Renews Its Independence,” op-ed, Aug. 24). Thirty-six years after our Declaration of Independence ...

Known now as a day of patriotism and enjoying time off from work, the Fourth of July began the journey to becoming a quintessential American holiday in 1776, when the Second Continental Congress ...

Louis Giles of the Society of the War of 1812 in Maryland reads on Aug. 17, 2022, an inscription on a headstone in the family plot of Samuel Neale, a Black man who fought in the War of 1812 and is ...

The US celebrates its Independence Day with closures in government services, record-breaking travel forecasts, and ...

In June of 1826, Thomas Jefferson sent a letter to Roger C. Weightman, declining an invitation to come to Washington, D.C. to help celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

250 Years After America Went to War for Independence, a Divided Nation Battles Over Its Legacy LEXINGTON, Mass. (AP) — Tens of thousands of people came to Lexington, Massachusetts, just before ...