Much of Mackinac Island was designated as a national park in 1875, but it proved to be too expensive for the government to ...

President Harry S Truman signed off on the creation of Independence National Historical Park on June 28, 1948. In the ...

Documentarian Ken Burns and his team discuss their new series exploring the country’s founding and war for independence on ...

Medicine Rocks State Park in eastern Montana may not be large but it's big on beauty. It is a little-known paradise for ...

An endangered Hawaiian monk seal was the picture of bliss lolling about a shallow lava rock pool along Papaloa Beach with her ...

Four Capital Region properties have been nominated for the National Register of Historic Places, the Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation announced Friday. According to NYS Parks, ...

Students Emma Crowley, Jaylen Kaufman and Drew McDaniel, from Wheatland Middle School, won the White House History Special ...

New Jersey’s exceeding diversity reaches beyond its terrains, populations and cuisines, extending to its beautiful historic ...

From live battle reenactments to walking in the footsteps of troops and visiting historical markers, these destinations offer ...

I wanted to see old New York, the earliest New York, the Lenni Lenape land of Mannahatta (“island of many hills”), the 1624 ...

When a site has pretty local historical value—like the Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site in Richmond, Virginia, which remembers the life of Walker, born to a slave, who later served as the ...

This state can be generally overlooked for travelers, including those who want to explore the great outdoors. However, it's ...