President Trump addressed the nation on its 250th anniversary to a scattered crowd in Washington late on Saturday, following ...

It was impossible not to count my lucky stars like the billowing white sails that dotted the New York Harbor Saturday as the ...

How the simultaneous deaths of two Founding Fathers entrenched the idea that the United States was chosen by God ...

The U.S. is turning 250 this weekend. To mark the anniversary, we discuss the films and TV series that best depict the American dream.

Patriotism means we have a responsibility to understand the country’s past, and these books explore our messy history.

In the decades ahead, the work will most likely come down to a handful of questions whose answers are genuinely uncertain.

To mark the occasion of America’s centennial, the people of Taunton, Massachusetts, invited James Russell Lowell—distinguished poet, founding editor of The Atlantic—to compose and read an ode for the ...

Her Late Majesty’s visit began in Philadelphia, home of the Declaration. There, Queen Elizabeth presented Ford with a new ...

John Adams was watching from the back of the room when James Otis Jr. argued against British writs of assistance in 1761. These were general warrants giving royal officials unlimited authority to ...

President Donald Trump said the July 4 celebrations at the Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument for the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence will be a "Trump rally." He said more ...