Wikimedia Commons/The Germantown Quakers The Germantown Protest, 1688 Four German Quakers wrote the first protest against ...

It was in 1776 that the original 13 colonies proclaimed their independence from England. While the word “semiquincentennial” doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue just yet, even probably sounds foreign ...

One bird spectacle readily observable in Allegheny County right now comes in the form of 100 purple martins swirling above ...

As the place with more castles than any part of the United Kingdom, Wales is commonly absent from the pictures drawn by ...

The Thirteen British colonies that would become the first of the United States — Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, ...

P INE BELT, Miss. (WDAM) - On this day, July 4, 249 years ago, the Declaration of Independence was adopted by this country’s ...

On a hot, steamy day in Philadelphia, a group of delegates to the Continental Congress gathered to celebrate the final ...

Founding Father John Adams once wrote that American independence should be celebrated with "illuminations from one end of this continent to the other" ...

Too often we tend to think that the Declaration of Independence was a creature which sprang to life between June 7, 1776, ...

On July 4, 1777, the Sons of Liberty set fireworks off over Boston Common. In Philadelphia the Pennsylvania Evening Post wrote “at night there was a grand exhibition of fireworks (which began and ...

The Fourth of July reminds us of how precious and dearly bought our freedoms are -- and why they’re worth protecting. So let ...

Booming fireworks, patriotic parades, and outdoor barbeques have become annual traditions, and many employees enjoy the day off of work for the federal holiday. July 4, also known as Independence Day, ...