Catholics were present in colonial America but faced restrictions and discrimination. In Philadelphia, the cradle of ...
Two hundred and fifty years ago, 13 colonies fought to become the founding states of a new nation. Each of them is intrinsic ...
As the United States celebrates its 250th anniversary, residents don't have to travel to Boston or Philadelphia to experience ...
Lydia Darragh was a pacifist and already led a very busy life in her adopted city of Philadelphia where she worked as a ...
Former Stuart News editor said in 1976 that U.S. strength comes from centuries of inherited democratic, legal and religious ...
Soldiers of Irish heritage accounted for up to 50 percent of the Continental Army's ranks. Driven from their homeland by ...
Ventura author Jane Hulse’s newest book, “Spanktown Papers,” was released just in time for America's 250th anniversary.
In celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, we remember names like Jefferson and Washington.
The millions of people who inhabited colonial America left traces of their lives behind—from George Washington’s bed to a ...
A young New Yorker’s letter to her cousin in London showed how colonial women in the late 1700s were waging their own battles ...
Is religious freedom on the retreat in America? A Trump commission certainly believes that to be true.
Long before the Revolutionary War, numerous traditions of Indigenous music flourished in places later incorporated into the ...