Indeed, the Founders would have been hopeless without them. To begin to piece together a fuller history of the Revolution, ...

Many literary classics have a way of appealing to our lizard brains while questioning why we're so compelled by them.

Versions of the Ross flag, now a logo for Freedom 250, the White House–endorsed semiquincentennial planner, have been popping ...

You don’t need to know a thing about France, or tactics or formations, to fall under the spell of the team’s sorcery with a ...

America’s 250th birthday has felt more restrained, brand-wise. The anniversary comes at a time when companies have become ...

A scorching heat wave in Europe, a bonfire celebration in Argentina, a Pride parade in Seattle, semiquincentennial ...

This year’s Fourth of July fireworks show on the National Mall is the first such event to be designated a “National Special ...

The president celebrates only some Americans. But patriotism is not about who is in the Oval Office.

To mark the occasion of America’s centennial, the people of Taunton, Massachusetts, invited James Russell Lowell—distinguished poet, founding editor of The Atlantic—to compose and read an ode for the ...

On July 4, 1976, as America celebrated its bicentennial, four C-130 aircraft flew blind over the dark waters of the Red Sea ...

I leveled out as a captain in the Army (a courtesy, really, because I got the promotion as I went on inactive status), and ...

Stephen Foster wrote some of the most enduring American songs, invented the role of songwriter, and served as a cautionary ...