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I am sharing the travels of the Haun family’s 4th of July week in Boston, capital city of Massachusetts, one of the oldest cities in the United States. Boston, founded in 1630, is rich in history and ...
On March 5, 1770, British soldiers fired into a crowd of Boston colonists near the Custom House on King Street. Five ...
Monarda, or wild bergamot, is a native plant that provides large lavender colored flowers from late June to August. It is also made into an herb tea.
There’s a lot to celebrate this Independence Day, as we mark the 249th anniversary of our national divorce from Great Britain ...
We don’t make the rules. Everything — drinking, dancing, talking, eating — is better at a rooftop restaurant or bar. You can ...
The Rel & Wilma Maples History Center in the King Family Library is hosting the Fourth Annual Sevier County Heritage Day, and this year’s free event focuses on ...
Most Americans, however, will associate America’s 250th with Philadelphia on Independence Day 2026. Though unfair to all the ...
Our history books can’t cover everything, which means that some of the best stories fade with time. The Edenton Tea Party is ...
Beneath the Independence Day pomp lies an uncomfortable, ironic truth: You’re not as free as you think, the Heritage Foundation’s Paul Mullen writes.
America was not the only nation at war with Great Britain during at this time. France, Spain and the Netherlands were also at ...
A new exhibit at the Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Museum explores how Alva Belmont’s tea parties helped spark revolutionary ...
Parliament’s Stamp Act tax of the mid-1760s ignited the Anglo-American conflict. Yet, as historians broadly agree, it was ...