On July 5th, 1865, the United States Secret Service was formed as part of the Department of Treasury. It was originally ...

Editor's note: In honor of Independence Day — this year, we mark 249 years since the United States parted with Great Britain ...

Why did Trump bomb iran? Why is the U.S. helping Israel? The answers are complex, but this timeline of U.S.-Iran relations ...

Most Americans are all familiar with the reason we celebrate July Fourth as Independence Day. But do you remember these other ...

When the Declaration was signed in 1776, it marked 13 distinct rebellions across separate colonies.

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As is our annual tradition, the editorial board presents the Declaration of Independence in lieu of an editorial to mark the ...

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s an AN Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States was first released in 2015 as part of Beacon ...

(KFVS) - Celebrate the history of the Heartland as America celebrates its 250th Birthday. Each day will have a history ...

Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally-recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once ...

As we prepare to celebrate the founding of this nation, let’s keep this in mind: Religious liberty is fundamental to American ...

In December 1865, the 13th Amendment formally abolished slavery in the United States. On June 19, 1866, freedmen in Texas organized the first "Jubilee Day" to commemorate the event.