It's almost America's 250th birthday, and to celebrate. The United States Postal Service (USPS) is releasing 25 new Forever Stamps featuring some of the heroes who helped shape the American Revolution ...

Public health has its own bracket of champions: breakthroughs that eliminated deadly diseases, revolutionized surgery, and opened entirely new doors in medicine. From vaccines to mRNA technology, ...

Did you say George Washington? Not so fast. Some historians say John Hanson. John who? That’s what I said! This makes absolutely no sense. All those textbooks and history teachers couldn’t have been ...

Richard Ingram recounts how Lafayette’s quiet choices to undergo smallpox inoculation and learn English may have saved his life and made him vital and popular in Revolutionary America.

As American batteries opened up on British positions in and around Boston to cloak the long file of Continental troops in “blue and buff” greatcoats or other hues, they lugged timber and cannons as ...

Did you say George Washington? Not so fast. Some historians say John Hanson. John who? That’s what I said! This makes absolutely no sense. All those textbooks and history teachers couldn’t have been ...

It’s pop quiz time! Quick: tell me who was the first president.

Obituaries published from the Schuylkill County area.

Governor Kathy Hochul announced four signature events to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United ...

This is a third act for Kehoe who's retired three times after years as both a teacher (she taught history and special education) and as the head of a sales and consulting business that catered to ...

With the Declaration of Independence signed on July 4, 1776, this year starts a planned year-long celebration of the nation’s semiquincentennial anniversary. The United States will turn 250 years old ...

Former Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams faces a civil lawsuit in London that accuses him of being an Irish Republican Army leader responsible for bombings in England ...