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

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

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 ...

Had Oliver Wendell Holmes not felt the patriotic pride that led to his writing of this inspiring poem, the USS Constitution ...

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

Tchaikovsky was neither American, nor a founding father, but his “1812 Overture” has become the soundtrack to our ...

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

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

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

The Arkansas General Society War of 1812 and the U.S. Daughters of 1812 representatives Ron and Sheila Beatty-Krout, respectively, marked the memorial stone site of Christian Fenter and his son, David ...