A teenager in Lexington, Mass., has for years been teaching people about the battle that started the war 250 years ago this ...

A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book America, América: A New History of the New World.

The incumbent for Iowa Colony City Council District A, Tim Varlack, will face off against newcomer Destinie Washington.

The No. 6 seed Detroit Pistons will be matching up against the third-seed New York Knicks in the first ... and Knicks have a contentious playoff history It’s been 33 years since the Pistons ...

With Saturday’s anniversary, the United States is looking back to its war of independence and asking where its legacy stands ...

A collection of indelible photographs, maps and “intimate guides” from 1807 to 1940 went beyond extolling the virtues of the ...

On April 19, 1775, a group of farmers organized as Minutemen in Concord, Mass., fired the "shot heard 'round the world" to ...

In new book 'A Promised Land,' history professor Adam Jortner looks at the role of Jews - then just 0.1% of the population - ...

Inside the steeple of Old North Church and among the Southern Colonies, less familiar stories of the events from 250 years ...

The great-great grandson of 19th-century British prime minister William Gladstone says he "shocked and horrified" to learn ...

Granger Collection, New York ... history: the initial encounter between Europeans in the future United States came with the establishment of a Huguenot (French Protestant) colony in 1564 at ...