Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, reenact the start of the American Revolution every year, but this year's festivities ...

Visiting Boston can be like flipping through the pages of a U.S. history book, with its superbly maintained colonial ...

Two towns in Massachusetts are fundamental to American history, but where the official first shot of the American Revolution happened has been debated for centuries.

A collection of indelible photographs, maps and ‘intimate guides” from 1807 to 1940 went beyond extolling the virtues of the ...

It’s hard to imagine today, but the entire town of Naperville could be captured in a single aerial photograph in the early 1920s. Given that its population was just 3,830 in 1920 (it would drop to ...

This wasn’t just any mansion—it sat on 200 acres filled with wonders like tennis courts, a big pool, and, most amazingly, a ...

Most farms were geared toward production for the family, but the rapid growth in population and the expansion of the frontier opened up large numbers of new farms. The number of farms, in fact, grew ...

In the 18th century, much of the Western world was ruled by monarchs. But that began to change 250 years ago this month, ...

“I believe we can accept both solutions,” Andrzej Duda says about hosting both U.S. and French warheads on Polish soil.