Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Amid the 4th of July parades, barbecues, pool parties and other get-togethers, this holiday is also a great time to get lost in a ...

From “Yankee Doodle” to iPod playlists, here’s what American troops read and listened to in every war — and how culture became morale equipment.

Russell Shorto has spent decades researching and writing about transformational and turbulent periods in history such as the ...

George Washington had Florida on his mind during the American Revolution ― a lot. The Father of the Nation was concerned about a British invasion coming from the South, specifically East and West ...

America’s fight for independence reverberated around the world in significant ways, which University of Maryland history professor Richard Bell explores in his engaging new book, The American ...

Gen. Ulysses S. Grant embraced Gen. Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox, but it was Gen. William T. Sherman and his destruction of Atlanta — and subsequent march through Georgia — that paved the ...

As the U.S. celebrates its 250th anniversary, NPCA highlights a few of the women who influenced the success of the patriot ...