April 19 marks 250 years since the first gunfire of the American Revolution rang out at 5:30 a.m. northwest of Boston. It was ...

The Story of Old Glory" explores the historical evolution of the American flag, highlighting its origins from various ...

WSHU’s Molly Ingram spoke to Dr. Kathy Hermes, the publisher of Connecticut Explored Magazine and professor Emerita of ...

Famous foreigners have often attracted large American crowds, but neither the Beetles nor the Rolling Stones nor Winston ...

You probably know the chocolate-inspired town of Hershey is located in Pennsylvania, and you might know a thing or two about ...

The Farewell Tour Lafayette first set foot on American shores on June 13, 1777, after fifty-four days at sea, at the south inlet of North Island, South Carolina, not far from Georgetown.  He was ...

Washington and Lee University announced they will be lending their portrait of George Washington to the Virginia Museum of ...

The first president realized that working with Congress – not alone or against it – was the best way to actually create an ...

Curators at George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate sought out rare 18th-century wallpaper for an ongoing restoration project.

A posthumous collection of Joan Didion’s diaries, biographies of Yoko Ono and Mark Twain, a history of The Onion — and plenty ...

On Jan. 24, 1776, Henry Knox, a bold, portly bookseller and former Bostonian, solved the first problem. Having seized Fort Ticonderoga, in upstate New York, he and his men dragged the garrison’s ...