A 250-year-old discovery in the heart of Philadelphia is revealing a food staple that also helped pave the city's streets.

In 1776, Philadelphia’s population of about 35,000 consumed millions of oysters a year. The colonial city was riddled with taverns and street vendors who sold oysters on the half shell. Residents ...

Efforts to honor the president and Massachusetts native with a memorial in Washington have faltered before. This time, ...

The United States has battled currency crises since our nation’s birth, but has consistently innovated solutions along the way.

Climate change is exacerbating extreme heat waves across the country, burdening families, putting Americans’ health at risk, ...

Four-hundred-and-six years ago, on a sweltering Virginia day, English settlers gathered in a modest wooden church in Jamestown to form the first ...

Tyler Stephens has left Fierce Government Relations after a decade with the firm to launch his own public affairs and ...

Chaplains from across the U.S. Army gathered at Arlington National Cemetery’s Chaplains Hill to commemorate the 250th ...

More than a dozen displays at Independence National Historical Park that share historical information about slavery during ...

Test your knowledge of Independence Hall, the birthplace of the U.S.! Discover facts about the Declaration of Independence, ...

More than a dozen displays at Independence National Historical Park that share historical information about slavery during the founding of United States have been flagged for a content ...

I have no blood connection with John Adams, one of our nation’s founding fathers and the second president of the United States. But I’ve read enough of his letters to find a real kinship with the ...