John Stark married Elizabeth Page on Aug. 20, 1758, at her father’s home in Starkstown (now Dunbarton). He left New Hampshire ...

New policies block promotions of Black officers and allow expulsion of Black men with a medical condition requiring beards.

War, inflation and presidential grifting mark an Independence Day best put in the past. But America has made it through worse ...

In Philadelphia, Pa. on July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress adopts the Declaration of Independence, which proclaims the ...

Patrick Henry, Thomas Paine and the Declaration of Independence all turned to divine sanction to make the case for breaking ...

In honor of the 250th anniversary of the birth of the United States, here are seven key dates that led to that independence ...

America is still the greatest country on earth. In 1775, James Allen, a loyalist during the American Revolution, wrote in his ...

The founding of this nation is unique in this world; history has proven it so.

From a providential fog over Brooklyn to a squall that grounded Cornwallis, weather was one of the Revolution's most ...

The Founding Fathers are due their credit, of course. They were the well-known politicians, brave military men and ...

After a year of limbo, some transgender troops who opted to leave the U.S. military voluntarily are finally being released. A ...

The Second Continental Congress produced the Declaration of Independence 250 years ago, and its legacy can be seen in the ...