Award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns joins TODAY to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States and looks back on the ...

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said some no-good, very bad things about her own generation in her recent interview with Fox News that ultimately left her scrambling to control the damage ...

A scathing report released on the Fourth of July says the National Museum of American History downplays the role of the ...

A look back at the economic and aesthetic cross-pollination between mother country and colony 250 years after the US declared ...

From "Independence Day" to "Invasion of the Body Snatchers", movies and TV shows are packed with advice for anyone aspiring ...

Fourth of July streaming spikes revive classic patriotic films as audiences seek history, nostalgia and Americana.

For generations, historians have downplayed the American Revolution as a squabble between elites. But the revolution unleashed egalitarian forces its architects could neither control nor contain.

Some of the generals and politicians egging the soldiers on hoped that George Washington would take up his men's cause and in ...

Faced with a dire job market, falling wages and endless competition, many young Chinese are recreating scenes from the early ...

Murder, suicide, spontaneous combustion, sleepwalking, ventriloquism: these are some of the sensational events in the novels of Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810). As the United States’ first ...

From the lightbulb to the airplane, to medical breakthroughs and the internet age, the past 250 years have been defined by ...

The story of the US is, in many ways, remarkable. It achieved independence against the odds, its constitution has lasted more ...