Ben Franklin dies, and America loses one of its most inventive minds.

Green spaces can make a big difference in a city. For a destination that is filled with greenery, visit the city that was named the best in the U.S. for parks.

Its first target is the vast, resource-rich 'Northwest Territory', stretching from the Appalachian Mountains to the Mississippi River. But this is not vacant land - thousands of native people from ...

The U.S. Census Bureau released an interactive graphic this week which offers a detailed history of how various labels have been rearranged, shifted and eliminated altogether over the decades.

Newsweek Columnist, Vice President of Content at Salem Media Group and host of "Our American Stories" In August 1790, America was a new nation with a new constitution and a new government, one ...

America’s first president George Washington addressed the assembled Congress with the first State of the Union on this day in history, Jan. 8, 1790. Washington’s address took place at Federal ...

In 1790 America created a patent system that was accessible by everyone, so individuals and small entities could afford proprietary protection.

How America has changed since the first Census in 1790 The U.S. Census Bureau announced April 26 that the country's population between 2010 and 2020 had experienced its second-slowest rate of ...

1790: Benjamin Franklin dies. Printer, newspaper publisher, statesman, inventor, scientist, patriot, revolutionary — no one, with the possible exception of Thomas Jefferson, cast a more imposing ...

America’s first president George Washington stood in front of the assembled Congress in New York City with the first State of the Union address on this day in history, Jan. 8, 1780.

Stacker looked back at historical data collected by the U.S. Census Bureau and compared how both the people have changed and how the questionnaire itself has changed since the first ...