When modern Americans call themselves patriots, they are evoking a sentiment that is 250 years old. In September 1774, nearly two years before the Declaration of Independence, delegates from 12 of the ...

An oil painting by Joshua Reynolds features a named naval officer and a Black child whose life story was unknown until researchers searched through captains’ logs, letters and admiralty records ...

HYRUM, Cache County — One Utah man has spent the past 50 years collecting different versions of the American flag, starting with the 13 colonies. From the oldest known American battle flag to the ...

ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) - While we celebrate this independence day, it is important to know Georgia’s part in America’s founding. 249 years ago, Georgia was among the original 13 colonies to declare ...

Tensions had been building between the American colonists and the British government for more than a decade before the “shot heard ‘round the world” was fired at the Battles of Lexington and Concord.

In January 1777, Baltimore printer Mary Katharine Goddard published the first copies of the Declaration of Independence that included the signers’ names. By then, the document was already old news.