Indeed, the Founders would have been hopeless without them. To begin to piece together a fuller history of the Revolution, ...

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Versions of the Ross flag, now a logo for Freedom 250, the White House–endorsed semiquincentennial planner, have been popping ...

You don’t need to know a thing about France, or tactics or formations, to fall under the spell of the team’s sorcery with a ...

A scorching heat wave in Europe, a bonfire celebration in Argentina, a Pride parade in Seattle, semiquincentennial ...

This year’s Fourth of July fireworks show on the National Mall is the first such event to be designated a “National Special ...

I leveled out as a captain in the Army (a courtesy, really, because I got the promotion as I went on inactive status), and ...

On July 4, 1976, as America celebrated its bicentennial, four C-130 aircraft flew blind over the dark waters of the Red Sea ...

But if a Spaniard played such an important role in the founding, and if Pensacola—which sits in a deep-red county of a ...

The president celebrates only some Americans. But patriotism is not about who is in the Oval Office.

In May, the largely unknown 62-year-old Trinidadian writer was named a regional winner of the prestigious Commonwealth Prize ...