Reenactors showed thousands of people the story start of the American Revolutionary War and the "shot heard round the world" on its 250th anniversary.

Historians and others look to balance any celebrations with questions about slavery, women and Indigenous people and what their stories say about the U.S. overall.

Columnist Candy Moulton writes, “July 4, 1776, marks the signing of the Declaration of Independence and America is preparing ...

But people from roughly a dozen of the areas ... "the Nation's First," traces its roots back to an order by the Massachusetts Bay Colony General Court in 1636. "The 101st Engineers, 181st ...

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Like “the Frankfurt School” or “cultural Marxism,” Gramscian ideas became fun ideas for right-wingers—most emphatically ...

The Massachusetts Constitution was the basis for the U.S. Constitution. Here's why that matters. And here's what's at stake ...

After the “shot heard round the world” started the Revolutionary War, Williamsburg found itself on the threshold of its own “first shot” and only the coolest heads and calmest spirits ...

While disaster can strike at any time, an unusual amount of tragic events seem to take place on a few inauspicious days in ...