Longfellow's poem on Paul Revere highlights revolutionary spirit; actual events reveal collective citizen action against ...

D.C. Emancipation Day celebrations continue, with a parade, festival, and concert commemorating the end of slavery in the ...

Leaders of state humanities councils throughout the country say federal funding cuts by President Donald Trump's administration will force them to scale back or eliminate celebrations next year ...

Here’s a lineup of events to take place during the Patriots Day festivities as the 250th anniversary of the first ...

Thousands turned out Sunday to partake in D.C.’s parade marking Emancipation Day, the day in 1862 that 3,000 enslaved people ...

The Emancipation Day Parade starts at 2 p.m. on Pennsylvania Avenue between 10th and 14th streets NW. After the parade, the ...

D.C. will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Emancipation Day holiday this weekend. President Abraham Lincoln signed the D.C. Compensated Emancipation Act into law on ...

The city’s annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade is set to step off on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan on Monday, March 17. Here’s everything New Yorkers need to know about the celebration, from road ...

What happened in April 1775 in and near Boston is an important chapter of the story of why, how and by whom America was birthed.

You should have never started it.” As cameras rolled during an explosive press conference in the Oval Office in February, U.S. President Donald Trump used these words to blame Volodymyr Zelensky, the ...

The independence movement on Guam is feeling ... of the U.S. and federal immigration checks on the island. “The United States is moving in a direction which is kind of like back in time, like ...

President Trump threw his support behind a measure that would allow members of the House of Representatives to vote remotely ...