President Trump is still talking about Greenland — and his interest in taking over the semiautonomous territory of NATO ally ...

The original 13 British colonies that made up the early United States had very different populations with decidedly different ...

Maybe Harrisburg’s connections to the Revolutionary War aren’t obvious. No battles raged here. No signers of the Declaration ...

Girl Scouts singing folk songs, a flag-waving party and a Times Square ball drop are among the planned Semiquincentennial ...

The 250th anniversary is keyed to the Declaration of Independence, ratified on July 4, 1776. Years of tension between the ...

America’s xenophobia and racism are again manifesting. On Dec. 2, the current president of the United States engaged in a racist tirade during a cabinet meeting, denigrating Somali immigrants as ...

Today, we celebrate the towering life and legacy of Benjamin Franklin—printer and philosopher, inventor and diplomat, public ...

On January 14, 1784, the Second Continental Congress ratified the decisive Treaty of Paris—the binding accord that ended the Revolutionary War, secured ...

Thomas Paine’s writing continued to support the Revolution, but once it reached a favorable conclusion, Paine returned to Europe and caught the spirit of the French Revolution.

The monarch allegedly said the U.K. would follow the U.S. in its "muscular return to colonialism” amid Venezuela and ...

Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense,” a mere 47 pages long, “swept through the colonies like a firestorm, destroying any final ...

President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social Tuesday that “shockingly, our ‘brilliant’ NATO Ally, the United Kingdom, is ...