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

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

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.

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 ...

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

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

In 1778, after two years of brilliant diplomacy by Benjamin Franklin, the not-yet-United States and the Kingdom of France signed a treaty of alliance as the American Colonies struggled to win their ...

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 ...

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 ...