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

With a height of 45.72 meters, the “Independence Flagpole,” fronting the Rizal Monument in Luneta, is the tallest in the Philippines. Twice a year, on June 12 and Dec. 30, a huge and impressive ...

The term “American exceptionalism” gets bandied about a lot, often being confused with flag waving or braggadocio. Perhaps the best definition was provided by the late newspaper columnist Charles ...

An Australian by birth, I have celebrated the Fourth of July in a few ways: as a student on the Lower East Side of New York, ...

President Trump will start the countdown to next summer’s Semiquincentennial with an event at the Iowa State Fairgrounds. Not ...

How have our shared visions of American ideals influenced the meaning of patriotism? How has this definition evolved over ...

The battle site, Riverbend Park, has a history of human habitation dating back 5,000 years. The Second Seminole War was part ...

SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler called out Democratic Sen. Ed Markey's hypocrisy after he attacked the federal agency for ...

Independence Day is a quintessential American holiday and the flag is its most visible symbol, but many Americans are unaware ...

But it wasn’t long ago that Trump regularly made a point to mark Juneteenth, the holiday that honors the freeing of enslaved ...

WISN 12 News is celebrating LGBTQ+ history by highlighting notable figures and moments each day of Pride Month in Milwaukee ...

New York Times journalist Kevin Sack says there was a “Charleston before 2015 and a Charleston after 2015″ in a discussion ...