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

Americans have looked to the Declaration of Independence when they sought to remedy contemporary problems and create new ...

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

From a corn boil in Galena to a special Chicago Symphony Orchestra performance to a documentary produced in Elgin, communities across Illinois are lining up to mark the USA’s 250th anniversary. So, ...

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

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

Welcome to December, a month to make merry during the holidays, because Andy Williams once upon decades ago, sang all about ...

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 ...

As part of the Bells Across PA initiative to commemorate and celebrate our nation’s 250th birthday, fiberglass replicas of the Liberty Bell will be dedicated and placed in all 67 counties across ...

"My Kaiser counselor had been advising me for more than a year to give it up — a step that I was unwilling to take until last ...

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

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 ...