Crowds flocked to Castle Island to check out Old Ironsides and its annual Fourth of July turnaround in Boston Harbor, along ...

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

Independence Day falls on Friday, July 4 this year. Here's what to know about what will be open and closed on the holiday.

The Fourth of July is Americana at its core: parades and cookouts and cold beer and, of course, fireworks. Those pyrotechnics ...

Known now as a day of patriotism and enjoying time off from work, the Fourth of July began the journey to becoming a ...

The Town of Bristol in Rhode Island, located about 16 miles south of Providence, holds the record for the oldest Fourth of ...

Arguably the most important victory of the revolution was won in autumn 1777, on a farm in upstate New York, by a storekeeper ...

The Arkansas General Society War of 1812 and the U.S. Daughters of 1812 representatives Ron and Sheila Beatty-Krout, ...

Warehouse membership club Costco is closed on July Fourth. Most other major national retailers such as Target and Walmart ...

The War of 1812 produced its own Paul Revere, except this folk hero was a woman who served the British. On the evening of June 21, 1813, ...

Independence Day celebrations are usually filled with fireworks, parades and patriotic festivities. So, how did it begin?

In 1812 French forces in Spain were severely overstretched, as Napoleon withdrew the best troops for his invasion of Russia. Wellington saw an opportunity to strike. First he secured the strategic ...