On Tuesday, August 6, 1918, “so hot was it that the asphalt paving of the downtown streets became so soft that in places the ...

Brand America was all over the place—to the point that some deemed the nation’s 200th birthday the “buy-centennial.” ...

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

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

H eaven created all persons in the same rut.” This is how one early Japanese translation of the Declaration of Independence ...

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

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

Many literary classics have a way of appealing to our lizard brains while making us question why we're so compelled by them.

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

Military experience is, sooner or later, humbling.

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 ...

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