The festival includes Revolutionary-era military encampments, musters, and re-enactments, as well as demonstrations of ...

Vague phrasing in the state’s Revolutionary-era Constitution enfranchised women who met specific property requirements. A ...

After years of escalating tension between his majesty George III’s government and American colonial leaders, a Revolutionary War had begun in April 1775. More provocations and tension followed. By the ...

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia was nearly canceled at one point due to low ratings but was saved when superstar Danny DeVito joined the cast. The show has now been on the air for a whopping 16 ...

Celebrate the anniversary of the arrival of the Declaration of Independence to New Hampshire in 1776 at the 34th American ...

News of the Declaration of Independence reached Great Britain in August 1776 and ignited a media frenzy, according to the Jack Miller Center, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit dedicated to teaching about ...

Delegates to the Second Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia on the Fourth of July in 1776, issued a remarkable document, proclaiming the thirteen colonies in America to be free from ...

After the 'No Kings' protests of June 14, two readers use the 4th of July to reflect on America's past and present.

America was not the only nation at war with Great Britain during at this time. France, Spain and the Netherlands were also at ...

Parliament’s Stamp Act tax of the mid-1760s ignited the Anglo-American conflict. Yet, as historians broadly agree, it was ...

A Man Full of Trouble is Philadelphia’s last remaining example of colonial bar culture that birthed the American Revolution.