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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Efforts to celebrate America’s 250th birthday kick off in the county on Saturday. The Crawford County Historical Society ...

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 ...

When on a bitterly cold January afternoon outside New York's City Hall, Zohran Mamdani raised his right hand and took the oath of office as mayor of New York City, the first Asian and Muslim mayor to ...

The dispute over Greenland is ultimately a North American dispute, and its logic is rooted firmly in the Monroe Doctrine, which has been guiding American policy off and on since 1823.

President Trump has criticized a deal between Britain and Mauritius over the Chagos Islands, calling it "an act of GREAT ...

In 1823, America was a nation whose military was inferior to any of the major (or even minor) European powers and that ...