Later this week, and for just one night, the South Dakota Capitol dome will be lit in a different and dramatic way. Rather ...

Special to IFN Broad Street United Methodist Church, a historic downtown Statesville congregation, is joining with other churches in ringing their bells ...

Andrew Lawler contends that Thomas Jefferson wanted to destroy urban, multiracial, capitalist Norfolk partly because it didn't fit his vision of an agrarian slaveocracy, that Black slave ownership ...

A newly analyzed medieval manuscript suggests that sailors from the same region as Christopher Columbus may have known about ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Community celebrations being planned to commemorate the nation's 250th anniversary next year are at risk of being significantly scaled back or canceled because of federal funding ...

A season on the Northern Forest Canoe Trail—stretching from the Adirondacks to northern Maine—reveals fresh possibilities for an ancient route.

Jeff Ficek returns to The Dickinson Press with the second installment of “The Spirit of ’76,” a three-part series on ...

The already strained relationship between Britain and the fledgling U.S. hit a boiling point in the early 19th century.

Richard Higgins, a former Globe reporter, is author of “Thoreau’s God” and “Thoreau and the Language of Trees.” On April 19, Concord and the nation will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Fight at ...

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s famous poem “Paul Revere’s Ride,” taught in classrooms across the United States for over a ...

Lord Dunmore spirits gunpowder out of Williamsburg to a British ship, provoking outrage. Militias start assembling for march to capital.