A quote of the day serves as a daily highlighted line of wisdom chosen to inspire, teach, or encourage reflection. Reading ...

Even during his lifetime, Washington faced criticism for holding slaves. In 1775, British essayist Samuel Johnson criticized ...

When Americans speak of the “Founding Fathers,” they usually have a group of about six men in mind: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, James Madison, and John Adams, for sure, and ...

Kansas City will the first city, in an eight-city tour, to exhibit multiple historic documents related to the founding of the ...

From the American Freedom Train and a Bicentennial Wagon Train to stars and stripes and everything red, white and blue.

Charles White is buried in the Greenfield Cemetery. There have been 20 members honoring Charles White as Daughters of the American Revolution members. Six of them are descendants of Julianna. Julianna ...

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado on Wednesday defended giving her Nobel Peace Prize to President Trump ...

The Ten Crucial Days campaign is one of the most celebrated and studied military campaigns in American military history.

Fronting this display is Magna Carta, represented by an eighteenth-century engraved facsimile of the 1215 document preserved ...

By Sherry Stocking Kline, Special to Sumner Newscow — Sumner County Historical & Genealogical Society in Wellington, Kansas, ...

Ron’s paternal great-grandparents Francis Selkirk (1841-1915) and wife Florence Anna Ten Eyck (1850-1921), with children (L-R ...