Brand America was all over the place—to the point that some deemed the nation’s 200th birthday the “buy-centennial.” ...

H eaven created all persons in the same rut.” This is how one early Japanese translation of the Declaration of Independence ...

Versions of the Ross flag, now a logo for Freedom 250, the White House–endorsed semiquincentennial planner, have been popping ...

Indeed, the Founders would have been hopeless without them. To begin to piece together a fuller history of the Revolution, ...

This year’s Fourth of July fireworks show on the National Mall is the first such event to be designated a “National Special ...

A scorching heat wave in Europe, a bonfire celebration in Argentina, a Pride parade in Seattle, semiquincentennial ...

You don’t need to know a thing about France, or tactics or formations, to fall under the spell of the team’s sorcery with a ...

Many literary classics have a way of appealing to our lizard brains while questioning why we're so compelled by them.

The president celebrates only some Americans. But patriotism is not about who is in the Oval Office.

On July 4, 1976, as America celebrated its bicentennial, four C-130 aircraft flew blind over the dark waters of the Red Sea ...

I leveled out as a captain in the Army (a courtesy, really, because I got the promotion as I went on inactive status), and ...

Stephen Foster wrote some of the most enduring American songs, invented the role of songwriter, and served as a cautionary ...