From the beginning, many decades before it became the United States, American society was founded not on hundreds of years of ...

Governments relied on financial infrastructure – bank messaging systems, insurance markets, shipping registries and port access rules – to restrict trade without physically stopping ships. But that ...

Nebraska farmer creates American flag and eagle design in soybean field for the Fourth of July. Digital archive organisers ...

I think it’s a good reminder of what everybody’s sacrificed to get us to where we are today,” said one visitor.

In many places, including the nation’s capital, the punishing heat has forced organizers to adjust plans for some events and ...

New York City was a sea of red, white and blue this Independence Day, as the United States celebrated its 250th birthday on ...

Many of the tall ships that sailed past the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor on July 4 will be sailing next to Boston ...

Zelienople's decades-long Fourth of July parade tradition took on new meaning Saturday, as the borough joined in celebrating ...

Zenith, Breitling and Corum celebrate America’s 250th Anniversary with limited-edition timepieces inspired by U.S. history ...

It’s America’s 250th birthday, and the “World’s Largest” corn maze in Richmond will mark the semiquincentennial in extraordinary style.

New York City has been a hotbed of patriotic festivities, and revelers both local and from out of town are out in force and ...