Americans, on July 4th, celebrate the nation’s birthday, when the Continental Congress officially declared that the United States was no longer a British colony, but an independent country. It gained ...

On July 4, 1863, after 47 days of battle, Lt. General John Pemberton’s Confederate troops surrendered to General Ulysses S.

When Bill Hanchett died in 2016, his son found a bundle of letters and postcards to family that he had written while in the ...

In grade school, I lived in Springfield, Illinois. When family or friends visited, we would invariably take them to see ...

A document beginning, ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident,’ meaning obvious, kindles something new: The American spirit.

Fast on the heels of the recent “No Kings” protests against President Trump comes an odd suggestion that Americans would be ...

We celebrate America’s freedoms on the 4th of July, not Britain’s - Opinion, Their Views | Hawaii Tribune-Herald ...

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, is "home to some of the most pivotal moments in American history," the bloody Civil War battle, a ...

By this Declaration, Americans asserted their unwillingness to be serfs or vassals to an unaccountable ruler, but rather as ...

For July 4, a list of two dozen popular priorities, including entrepreneurship, as a source of optimism in a divided time.