If amateur investigation into my lineage is to be believed, Rebecca Nurse is my ninth great-grandmother, Lynne Weiler writes.

Reenactors showed thousands of people the story start of the American Revolutionary War and the "shot heard round the world" on its 250th anniversary.

You have heard about frivolous laws; well, it gets better — consider businesses or think tanks ranking your chance of having a UFO encounter.

Historians and others look to balance any celebrations with questions about slavery, women and Indigenous people and what their stories say about the U.S. overall.

As the 250th anniversary of the adoption of our Declaration of Independence draws near, on July 4,2026, many will call to mind the famous names of some of the great signers of our Declaration of ...

Rhode Island may be the smallest state in the union, but its oldest park is packed with big things to see and do, including ...

The respected silversmith and his fellow messengers played a key role in the colonists’ first victory of the Revolutionary ...

Known as the Tantiusques, the mine was sold to John Winthrop Jr., the son of the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1644. Before then, the mine had been used by the Nipmuc tribe, who ...

Known as the Tantiusques, the mine was sold to John Winthrop Jr., the son of the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1644. Before then, the mine had been used by the Nipmuc tribe ...

Fire crews responded to the Bay Colony Apartments where heavy smoke and fire was coming from a second floor unit and the roof. One person was taken to the hospital with minor injuries. TAMPA - A fire ...

Colony Bankcorp in Fitzgerald, Georgia, has agreed to pay $3.5 million to acquire an in-state agency, in a possible return to pre-2023 conditions where banks regularly ranked among the top acquirers ...