Colonial Williamsburg, the country’s largest living history museum, has been bringing to life the Founding Fathers and reenacting some of America’s defining origin moments through costumed ...

Independence National Historical Park hosts some of the nation’s preeminent places of history. But what was the area like before the park was established in 1949? Independence Hall sits now ...

Travel guide website Daily Passport has listed two Virginia locations among its “Six Fascinating Early Colonial America History Sites to Visit.” Colonial Williamsburg and its historic area and St.

USA TODAY Network Tennessee Columnist Cameron Smith is a Memphis-born, Brentwood-raised recovering political attorney raising three boys in Nolensville, Tennessee. There was a struggle between ...

On this day in history, Sept. 9, 1776, American colonies named 'United States of America' Continental Congress decreed that 'United Colonies' be replaced by 'United States,' echoing term used in ...