For the 250th anniversary, the Times Magazine asked leading historians to profile founding-era Americans whose roles in the ...
He then pauses, and asks to start over, recalling how President Franklin Delano Roosevelt evoked Jefferson as an “apostle of ...
July 4 live: Trump’s Freedom 250 feels the heat as white nationalists march on DC with Confederate flags - Hundreds of ...
But decades before industrial America transformed global horology in the latter half of the 19th century, the Founding Fathers lived in a world where mechanical timekeeping represented the pinnacle of ...
Due to high temperatures, some cities are delaying, modifiying or all together canceling parts of the celebration, including ...
Long before he became America’s third president, Thomas Jefferson bought a copy of the Quran from a Williamsburg printing office. He read it not as scripture, but as law, part of a wider search ...
Collectors hunting for valuable coins don't have to reach back a century or more to find them -- they can pop back a few decades to the era of disco music and leisure suits. Several U.S. coins ...
How will America’s 250th birthday influence our memory as a people? Many nostalgically remember the tall ships coming into the harbor for the country’s bicentennial, an experience that will be ...
Cuts in federal food assistance are squeezing food pantries in Maine’s northernmost county, where nearly 1 in 5 people rely on SNAP benefits. Jim Cyr, left, and Cliff Cyr, right, watch as a staff ...