Due South continues marking the United States' 250th anniversary with the story of the Revolutionary War hero the Marquis de Lafayette, an overlooked figure from that war named John Chavis who was a ...

As she grew up, Dymond Bush heard her grandmother’s stories about her relatives and lineage dating back to the origins of the United States.

New Jersey wasn’t just a backdrop to the Revolution — it was the battleground. A historian maps the overlooked towns, people ...

Here are five ways to round out your holiday weekend with these series and channels that show you various sides of American ...

Archaeologists who were excavating an historic Connecticut town green have uncovered the well-preserved remains of an 18th-century bake house — an unusual remnant of the Revolutionary War.

Soldiers of Irish heritage accounted for up to 50 percent of the Continental Army's ranks. Driven from their homeland by ...

Podcast host Isabelle Roughol exposes White House's Freedom 250 site for using AI-generated, historically inaccurate images ...

William Maxwell and John Witherspoon were immigrants to the then-British colony of New Jersey, who each played a role during the Revolutionary War.

As the nation marks 250 years since the Declaration of Independence, one city’s contribution to that history remains easy to ...

Thousands of people are expected to gather at Joe Riley Waterfront Park on Saturday, July 4. Drawing the crowd is the holiday ...

Celebrate the Fourth of July with films and TV shows about lesser-known figures from America's founding.

What was religious life like in America in 1776? In this episode of the Harvard Religion Beat podcast, Professor Catherine ...