Two lanterns lit the steeple of a Boston church in 1775, a rallying cry that gave us a new nation. On April 18, Arizona will light that fire again.

Maria Brown, head of the committee, hopes for every house to display two lights in a window or outside their dwelling the ...

It’s not buying American flag boxer briefs. It’s following up words with actions.

Vermont history buffs are in for a good time this year as the state begins to commemorate the pending 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

I walked by every single elected official’s office to document exactly which of them fly Christian nationalist flags.

The keystone is part of the county's celebrations for the upcoming 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of ...

Ted Widmer, a consulting editor for this special issue of Globe Ideas, is the author of “Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days ...

There were Black soldiers fighting for the British. But others went to war for the colonists — who compared their own plight ...

It was much more than a war. The shot that launched the American Revolution was “heard ’round the world,” not because of ...

HALIFAX - If U.S. President Donald Trump fails in his stated goal of annexing Canada through economic force, what would ...

The phrase was reportedly first used 250 years ago Sunday by lawyer and legislator Patrick Henry to persuade Virginia colonists to prepare for war against an increasingly punitive Great Britain, just ...