In 1865, Congress passes the 13th Amendment. The war ends, Lincoln is assassinated and the states ratify the amendment later ...

Legislation that would authorize physician-assisted suicide in Massachusetts cleared its first committee hurdle, this time ...

From sea to shining sea, music has defined how Americans see themselves -- and their country. On the Fourth of July, these ...

A volunteer searching the archives of the American Baptist in Massachusetts has found a nearly 180-year-old document shedding ...

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

He concluded, he later wrote, that the troops were “ exceeding dirty & nasty people ” led by indifferent officers with an “ ...

On July 4, 1777, the Sons of Liberty set fireworks off over Boston Common. In Philadelphia the Pennsylvania Evening Post ...

July 4, also known as Independence Day, marks the day the Declaration of Independence was adopted and the 13 North American ...

John Adams, for what it's worth, reportedly turned down invitation to July 4 events as he still believed it should be ...