Americans celebrate the Fourth of July because it marks the birth of the United States. Historians rightly remember it for ...

Perspective: The Revolution rested on real grievances and genuine ideals. It was also sold through selective memory.

Can we restore the great, eternal principles of 1776? We will never “Make America Great Again” until/unless we do. The Left ...

As the US celebrates its 250th anniversary, a professor of political thought argues that the focus should be on the pursuit ...

Jefferson founded a nation. He also helped found American meteorology, as BBC Weather explains.

On the cover of her latest album, Confessions II, Madonna's face is obscured by a purple veil. "Sometimes I like to just hide ...

South Korea released 3,836 pages of records showing bitter disputes, insults and table-pounding clashes in early inter-Korean ...

The U.S. military has gone through many changes in the 250 years since the modern United States was born, with more sure to ...

July 4th is coming up and it marks the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Text “FLAG” to ...

Trump uses “love” the way lazy cooks use salt — reflexively, promiscuously, unimaginatively. Why sweat something more ...

As America's 250th anniversary approaches, a number of TV docuseries and web series, both historical and satirical in nature, ...

Historian and journalist Walter Isaacson writes that the Declaration's second sentence 'defines an enduring mission.' ...