The U.S. Mint recently struck what will be the final 1-cent coin to be used as legal currency, a few days after the Trump ...

The point is that America, on the eve of its 250th birthday, is a young nation.

Cole Escola's comedy provides an irreverently anachronistic take on Mary Todd Lincoln and her presidential husband. Read more ...

Colonial Americans, including George Washington, celebrated countless "thanksgivings" throughout their lives – just not in ...

To understand how a department store that opened when Abraham Lincoln was still a private citizen created America’s ...

Gov. JB Pritzker and other state leaders kicked off the celebration of America's 250th anniversary at Navy Pier Wednesday.

Noted author Jane Austen marks her 250th birthday this December, and to celebrate, Rock Island Public Library is offering a ...

A truckload (or ambulance-load) of Emmys and acclaim later, "Pitt" has become synonymous with the very best of what ...

From Boston to Bristol, the nation’s birthplace leads the charge in celebrating 250 years of American independence.

It was Nov. 19, 1963, when Abraham Lincoln gave his famous Gettysburg Address during the dedication ceremony at Gettysburg National Cemetery. 162 years later, local historians say the words in that ...

Long before highways and aircraft, the dead traveled by rail. In the 19th century, overcrowded cities turned to funeral trains to carry coffins and mourners to remote cemeteries, transforming grief ...

The penny might soon be gone, but not forgotten. This family's patriarch instilled a fondness for wheat pennies in its ...