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.

Part one: "How the War of 1812 Eroded U.S. Liberalism" As the War of 1812 with Great Britain approached during the Republican administration of James Madison, the War Hawks saw silver linings ...

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 ...

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 ...

Petty Officer 2nd Class Amber Speer, a native of Plainfield, Illinois, is one of more than 60 sailors celebrating America’s ...

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

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

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 ...

As the 249th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence loomed, Congress passed a bill that steals from the poor, hungry and sick to reward the wealthy, enslave generations to unsustainable debt ...

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 ...

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.