Generations of children have learned how pioneers traveled the Oregon Trail, not in textbooks but on a video game with ...

From the lightbulb to the airplane, to medical breakthroughs and the internet age, the past 250 years have been defined by ...

This week we mark the country’s semiquincentennial – 250 years since the Declaration of Independence. The United States looks ...

This commonplace car feature was first introduced on a production model by an American brand with a long history.

History is often explained in terms of forces so overwhelming that they seem to shape events regardless of individual ...

The Second Continental Congress adopts The United States Declaration of Independence. Sept. 28, 1781: The Siege of Yorktown leads to negotiations for peace, ends British rule of the colonies and ...

A letter written 250 years ago by John Adams to his wife Abigail reminds 21st century Americans about the bold sacrifice and binding covenant our nation’s founders made on behalf of generations to ...

Can it do what it takes to give itself another 250 years? To improve its odds, the U.S. could draw on lessons from history — ...

Question: True or false? Next time a thunderstorm rumbles across the area and you see it on radar, whether it be TV, computer ...

In the 1970s, American Fireworks, a family-run pyrotechnics company in Hudson, Ohio, used a “home run box” to offer quick and ...

Our special series of columns marking Metropolitan Diary’s 50th anniversary continues with more notable contributors sharing ...

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Octavia E. Butler, Homer: Los Angeles teachers share what they are teaching in today's high school ...