New Richmond’s Freedom Fest this past weekend marked the village’s annual celebration of Independence Day, July 4, 1776.

Almost everybody loves a parade. On Saturday, people joined the Littleton Patriotic Parade as participants or lined Mosby Ave ...

The festival includes Revolutionary-era military encampments, musters, and re-enactments, as well as demonstrations of ...

The first-ever Independence Day took place in 1776—yet there are several homes across the U.S. that pre-date that historic ...

We are independent of London, but are we independent of Washington? Is there more freedom when governed by one tyrant 3,000 ...

This year, Independence Day coincided with another historic birthday: Quincy’s. It has been 400 years since English colonists ...

For the 249th time, Americans are getting ready to haul out the hot dogs and fire up the fireworks for the nation’s big ...

Over time, the Fourth of July became etched in public memory as the date of independence, largely because it was the day Americans first saw the finished document. It became symbolic, representing the ...

Five years ago, on July 4, 2020, the country was in the midst of waves of rioting. The proximate cause, the match that lit the fire, was the death of a black man, a violent ex-convict, on May 25, with ...

Poplar Forest's main event was a reenactor playing America's third president and a Virginia native, Thomas Jefferson.

The Declaration of Independence is full of promise and a few mysteries. A rare copy of it ended up at The Henry Ford Museum ...