These 50 historical towns are the oldest in their state. Many date back to before America's founding.

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The writer Sarah Vowell was not born in Chicago. She was born a couple of days after Christmas in 1969 in Muskogee, Oklahoma. She is of Swedish, Scottish and Cherokee ancestry and she attended the ...

Unlike the well-known Betsy Ross flag, which has the stars arranged in a circle, this flag has the stars placed in three rows ...

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From a legacy of deep cultural significance to Native Americans and opening up the state’s hinterlands to European ...

A pilot in the Afghan Air Force, he was recruited for the Soviet space program. His 1988 flight took place as the Soviets ...

At first, it was a motley group of colonies that barely held itself together. But on July 4, 1776, with the adoption of the ...

Friday begins the parade of tall ships in the New York/New Jersey harbor to celebrate the 250th birthday of the United States ...