According to the National Park Service, fireworks on the National Mall are set to begin at 9 p.m. local time on July 4. The ...

The celebration of the Declaration of Independence's semiquincentennial is a chance to broaden the historical narrative to ...

Precariously perched in cliff crevices or soaring high over swelling seas, Ireland’s marine birds create some of the ...

By Clyde “The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved; he offered his voice, the earth melted.” (Exodus 46:6). Preface, 1876 History of the Exhibition: “the close of the first century of American ...

From live battle reenactments to walking in the footsteps of troops and visiting historical markers, these destinations offer ...

A Q&A with author Russell Shorto on the early colonial history of New Amsterdam in the lead-up to a confrontation with the ...

By Deslyn A Joseph Antigua and Barbuda observed National Flag Day yesterday, a double celebration which coincided with the ...

O Canada! She’s a beauty but she’s also at your convenience. Hop in your car, aim the GPS north and you’ve got an ...

Merchants in the New England colonies, principally Newport, Rhode Island and Boston, Massachusetts, began a similar trade.

It's now largely forgotten that in the early 1900s, nearly a third of the Arabian Peninsula was under British India.

The Soldier and the Revolutionary War” is a powerful new 5,000-sq.-ft. exhibition at the National Museum of the United States Army.

Asia is not a singular story to be decoded, Xiaowen Zhu argues, but a plural condition to be encountered on its own terms.