It's the United States' semiquincentennial year. Or just call it USA 250. Throughout 2026, Iowans will be celebrating 250 years since the 13 colonies declared their independence in 1776. Here's a ...

On Sept. 27, 1777, Lancaster served as the capital of the United States. The previous day, British troops had occupied Philadelphia. They had been steadily moving on the colonial capital ...

Darren Aronofsky executive produces ’On This Day… 1776’, an AI series reconstructing key 1776 events with Primordial Soup and Google DeepMind streaming weekly on Time YouTube channel.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art took an emphatic tone in titling “Revolution!,” an exhibit commemorating a 250th anniversary that I probably need not spell out, and the result is emphatically good. The ...

A journey around Lower Manhattan highlights the roots of Revolution in the nation's first capital, now New York's largest city.

Racond, a historian of all things Washington, called the speech the soon-to-be president's "most important" action in ...

The rise of social media has disrupted both the media system and political parties. Financial markets gyrate, industries rise and fall at blistering rates, and new life-changing technologies appear ...

The Recorder is featuring a weekly series every Saturday over the next year on the founding of this nation leading up to the 250th anniversary on July 4, ...

These are the times that try men’s souls, the Revolution Era pamphleteer Thomas Paine wrote in 1776, as the American colonies of Great Britain seethed under the demonic rule of a mad king.

Girl Scouts singing folk songs, a flag-waving party and a Times Square ball drop are among the planned Semiquincentennial ...

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