Lecturer Colleen Plimpton provided an introduction to her lecture about how plants were used by colonists in early America and during the Revolutionary War as medicines, supplies, food, and repellants ...

As I write this article on a sunny autumn afternoon, 1.2 million tourists are quickly invading my local city of Salem, Massachusetts. Many come for the haunted ...

Many now believe that the U.S. could descend into political violence. Some are joining survivalist communities, canning food—and buying guns.

Last year, my wife, Joan, and I spent four days in the Somme and Verdun areas of France visiting the battlefields of the ...

Today's Caprock Chronicle is the seventh and final Caprock Chronicle concerning the Red River War, which occurred 150 years ...

More than 130 years after his death, the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War held their annual celebration of the birthday of Lowell native Union Gen. Benjamin Franklin Butler. Butler was born in ...

Back in the day when I started working as a tour guide, the usual Manila tour included two cemeteries - American Cemetery and Chinese Cemetery. It felt strange to have two cemeteries in a standard ...

The 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence is less than two years away and New Jersey is already planning for ...

Gov. Phil Murphy announced state plans to mark the 250th anniversary of the United States during an event at Monmouth ...

Gov. Phil Murphy and other N.J. leaders kicked off the state's celebration of the nation's 250th anniversary on Friday.

It is a state like no other in the country's founding, but places like Boston and Philadelphia get more attention.

Gov. Phil Murphy, Lieutenant Governor Tahesha Way, and Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman launched New Jersey’s celebration ...