In essence, Juneteenth is a second Independence Day. After 2½ bloody years of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln signed ...

A dispute that’s been going on for centuries has heated up again as the neighboring towns plan competing celebrations to mark ...

How many of these Declaration of Independence facts do you know? As the 4th of July nears, Americans may be curious about the ...

On February 26, 1775, residents of Salem, Massachusetts, banded together to force the British to withdraw from their town ...

While John Adams called for a declaration of independence in the Continental ... another English declaration of war, the French had been supporting the American army in secret.

What: A first-day-of-issue ceremony for Battlefields of the American Revolution, new Forever stamps to commemorate the 250th ...

In his first version of the Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson wrote a scathing indictment of King George for promoting slavery in the New World. The other delegates eventually removed ...

Maybe you ve heard about America s 250th birthday being in 2026 Officially, this is called a semiquincentennial ...

On April 26, 1777, during the Revolutionary War, a large British raiding party attacked the American supply depot at Danbury, Connecticut, burning houses and barns and destroying stores of shoes, ...

Test your knowledge of American History and the Fourth of July with CNN’s Independence Day Quiz. And be sure to watch CNN’s “The Fourth In America” special, featuring coast-to-coast ...

a Polish Cavalry Officer Who Became an American Revolutionary Hero On the first Monday in March, Pulaski Day festivities at Chicago's Polish Museum of America honored the "Father of American ...

the not-yet-United States and the Kingdom of France signed a treaty of alliance as the American Colonies struggled to win their war for independence from Britain. France sent soldiers, money and ...