Dan explains the many times Canada has resisted joining the USA since 1775.

For many Americans, Donald Trump’s head-spinning array of executive orders in the early days of his second term look like an ...

In the optimistic missive, Washington extols the revolutionary spirit of the American people—even in defeat—and makes a rare ...

History remembers Flora as the hero of the Battle of Great Bridge. A sentry facing an onslaught of volleys, he fired multiple ...

Thousands of volunteers work to decode handwritten records from America's past. The National Archives program includes Revolutionary War pension files and Civil War documents.

On Presidents Day, we celebrate the Father of America and his indelible mark on history. Our nation’s first president was born near Popes Creek, Virginia, on February 11, 1731. That date might have ...

Thomas Jefferson claimed he came up with a plan for the emancipation of enslaved Black Americans 100 years before the Civil ...

A letter written by George Washington in 1777 that is valued at $150,000 is up for sale this Presidents Day. The letter, ...

Nearly all of the remaining major 250th anniversaries in Massachusetts will happen over the next 13 months, coinciding with ...

James Madison University professor Rebecca Brannon studies age and the American Revolution. She says her students are often ...

Throughout history, American presidents who have an understanding of rural America and the farmers and ranchers living there ...

Putting US troops on the ground would fly in the face of current American public opinion. In a survey taken on February 12, only a quarter of those polled supported the prospect of US troops being ...