America commemorates its Independence Day every July 4th, marking the adoption of the Declaration of Independence in 1776.

Some staffers at the U.S. Agency for International Development describe racing the clock to try to push out promised funds ...

Packed with maritime and colonial history, Maryland’s capital city of Annapolis also offers tons of ways to get out on the ...

Americans spent an estimated total of $13.3 billion on food and beverages for the Fourth of July. As we come together to ...

Created out of America's desire to protect Europe from communism, the North Atlantic Alliance underwent profound changes ...

Rich Graves, a native of New Haven, Connecticut, is also survived by his siblings Chuck Graves, Eileen Graves, John Graves ...

Tanks and thousands of troops paraded through the streets of Washington, D.C., for the Army's 250th anniversary on President Donald Trump's birthday.

The film explores the early life of George Washington, detailing his childhood on a Virginia plantation, his family dynamics, and significant events that shaped his future. It highlights his ...

Curators at George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate sought out rare 18th-century wallpaper for an ongoing restoration project. The wallpaper was found at the Old York Historical Society in Maine ...

George Washington Carver was an American agricultural scientist and inventor, sometimes known as the “Peanut Man”. In the early 1900s, he developed hundreds of products using peanuts, soya ...

The presidential office was first envisioned to be more like a clerk's job, and in its earliest incarnation, it was almost unseemly to be perceived as campaigning for the office, historians tell NPR.