The Fourth of July holiday celebrates community — national and also local. Parades featuring people in uniform — scouts, ...

What are we celebrating this weekend, anyway? The memory of something that occurred in our distant past. The ideas of freedom and liberty so earnestly and dramatically expounded by our founding ...

Renowned American actor Kurt Russell spent part of his July 4th visiting the Arlington house where his eighth ...

As Arlington commemorates the 250th anniversary of the start of the American Revolution, Kurt Russell and his son are ...

Parliament’s Stamp Act tax of the mid-1760s ignited the Anglo-American conflict. Yet, as historians broadly agree, it was ...

It is time once again to celebrate the red, white and blue. Of course, by that, I mean the Union Jack, the flag of the United ...

The Declaration of Independence is celebrated because it was an inflection point where the Continental Congress decided that ...

Thousands of merchants and other businessmen from Massachusetts down to Georgia were quite wary of what belligerence to England might do to their livelihoods – and thus as of early the following year, ...

While hunters and their rifles helped wage psychological warfare, the American victory can actually be attributed to ...

The United States of America is a product of Britain, fueled by the bold practitioners of Enlightenment thought. All the ...

The Declaration of Independence is a foundational document in American history. It was officially adopted by the Second ...

And literature, come on. C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Dickens, Dahl, Doyle, Austen, Woolf, and J. K. Rowling, to start. The entire world of Harry Potter has captivated generations of readers worldwide, ...