From live battle reenactments to walking in the footsteps of troops and visiting historical markers, these destinations offer ...

A local group known as Silence Dogood is confronting President Trump’s border czar and others with historic light displays.

Instead of bootleg fireworks and sweaty roller meat, study up on one of the biggest victories in the battle for public lands.

Feel the sense of what it was like to be on the ground at the battlegrounds where the American Revolution was fought.

On Friday we will celebrate the 249th year of our country. Brats and burgers will be cooked, beer will be consumed, fireworks ...

The Sons of Liberty resisted British rule in the years before the Revolutionary War, perhaps most famously by organizing the 1773 “Boston Tea Party” in protest of the hated Tea Act. Dawes was ...

The Sons of Liberty resisted British rule in the years before the Revolutionary War, perhaps most famously by organizing the 1773 “Boston Tea Party” in protest of the hated Tea Act. Dawes was an ...

When I was a teenager, a mostly forgotten series of novels taught me U.S. history. How would they read to me now?

It wasn’t smart to bet against Dorothy S. Miller, my fifth-grade teacher at Washington Grade School in Bloomington, Illinois.

Modern movements cling to the Boston Tea Party as an anti-government emblem, but they target the symptom (government) and ignore the disease.

Different times, different causes: The Boston Tea Party, in 1773, led by American Colonists rebelling against unfair acts by the British Crown, first led to increased punishment by the British ...

Rand Paul, Ron Johnson, and others are striking a tone of fiscal conservatism that sounds a lot like that of the 2010s.