Arguably the most important victory of the revolution was won in autumn 1777, on a farm in upstate New York, by a storekeeper ...

The promise of America, July Fourth, Independence Day, is not only in the fireworks, cookouts and family bonding that we all ...

Franklin’s Board of Mayor and Aldermen will revisit a controversial flag ordinance and consider several amendments.

The 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence included John Hancock, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin ... president to serve under the 50-star American flag after it was officially ...

Three US presidents died on July 4, all nation-makers. Two of them, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, died on the same day in ...

Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin would forever occupy an elevated position in the American imagination. He was, after all, the man who risked life and limb to ...