The following is an installment of “On This Day,” a series celebrating America’s 250th anniversary by following the actions ...

From protesting British overreach before the Declaration of Independence was even written to helping supply an army, here are ...

When Americans speak of the “Founding Fathers,” they usually have a group of about six men in mind: George Washington, Thomas ...

Kansas City will the first city, in an eight-city tour, to exhibit multiple historic documents related to the founding of the ...

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado on Wednesday defended giving her Nobel Peace Prize to President Trump ...

From the American Freedom Train and a Bicentennial Wagon Train to stars and stripes and everything red, white and blue.

Charles White is buried in the Greenfield Cemetery. There have been 20 members honoring Charles White as Daughters of the American Revolution members. Six of them are descendants of Julianna. Julianna ...

Fronting this display is Magna Carta, represented by an eighteenth-century engraved facsimile of the 1215 document preserved ...

By Sherry Stocking Kline, Special to Sumner Newscow — Sumner County Historical & Genealogical Society in Wellington, Kansas, ...

Ron’s paternal great-grandparents Francis Selkirk (1841-1915) and wife Florence Anna Ten Eyck (1850-1921), with children (L-R ...

Thomas Paine’s Common Sense would ultimately call for the full separation of Great Britian and the “Inhabitants of America.” It also notably pushes ideas of more equal governance, enshrining the ideas ...