Many Americans are celebrating their country’s 250th birthday by trying to block out the noise of national division.

In 1976, as the United States prepared to celebrate its 200th anniversary, the mood was ambivalent.

The Trump administration recently asked visitors to U_S_ national parks to report displays or exhibits saying “negative” things about Americans and to restore sites as “uplifting public monuments."

After more than 30 years, the World Cup is back in Boston.

The historic midnight ride of Paul Revere was reenacted Monday but with some modern-day tweaks: It was run in the middle of the day, and the horse and rider had a police escort.

The stories of Black and Indigenous men who fought during the American Revolution are sometimes overlooked.

Centuries-old private libraries are bringing modern comfort and awe to book lovers and history buffs in New England.

John Korir has the resume that proves he is fast enough to win the Boston Marathon and the family connections that might just help him do it.

Boston’s Old North Church is getting a $75,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities that will help it better integrate its ties to the American Revolution and its links to the slave trade.

Sometimes referred to as the Great Eastern Brood, the Brood X periodical cicada is a 17-year cicada that last emerged in 2004.