The U.S. is 50 states strong today, but it began as 13 small colonies. Can you name them?

When this country’s first 13 colonies declared independence from Britain 250 years ago in 1776, it probably didn’t make the ...

El Nino. The latest forecast for this year’s El Nino cycle has an 81% chance of being “very strong” from October to December ...

When 56 representatives from the 13 colonies signed the Declaration of Independence from Britain in 1776, it was over nearly ...

Poway celebrated the nation’s 250th anniversary with patriotic fanfare during the Old-Fashioned Fourth of July ceremony held ...

As the US marks 250 years since independence, historians say Spanish colonial soldiers and financial support were decisive in ...

On July 8, residents of Starke County commemorated the day that the original Declaration of Independence was read to the people of the original 13 colonies, 250 years ago.

"We can't allow the words of the Declaration of Independence to devolve into impotent platitudes. Following the example of ...

While school children learn about taxation without representation, Thomas Paine's Common Sense reminds that it was Britain's ...

History came alive on the grounds of the Bennington Battle Monument, when the town kicked off the Independence Day and 250th ...

Florida has long had a reputation for independence. But during the American Revolution, the land that is part of the ...

More than 50 attendees gathered for a community reading on Town Common honoring the nation’s founding and Bedford’s ...