Juneteenth celebrates a milestone in African American history. Do some, in and out of Washington, want to sweep that history ...

Today on Juneteenth, we are celebrating African American freedom and history with a look at The Black Heritage Trail of New ...

It’s part of the promise of the New World, that the Western Hemisphere would be, as the American revolutionary Thomas Paine ...

History came to life in Ocala this weekend, thanks to the Sons of the American Revolution’s Withlacoochee Chapter.

Surprisingly learning these stories gave me strength,” he said. “I revered these incredible people for their ability to ...

Documentarian Ken Burns and his team discuss their new series exploring the country’s founding and war for independence on ...

It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the Civil War’s end and ...

A reading of the Declaration of Independence will take place on Friday, July 4, 2025 at Historic Pohick Church in Lorton.

On this day in 1775, the Continental Congress, the governing body of the 13 American colonies and later the United States, ...

“The Revolution on Cape Cod and the Islands: Issues, Events, and People” focuses on events that took place across the Cape and Islands, from about 1761 and the early signs of rebellion to the ...

I wanted to see old New York, the earliest New York, the Lenni Lenape land of Mannahatta (“island of many hills”), the 1624 ...