With Saturday’s anniversary, the United States is looking back to its war of independence and asking where its legacy stands ...

At a peaceful Lexington reenactment marking 250 years since the Revolution’s first battle, echoes of America’s founding ...

In 1607, 104 English settlers picked the worst possible spot to build America’s first permanent colony. The 104 original ...

Bowling was popular in Colonial America, played outdoors, known as nine-pin bowl or skittles and was immediately condemned by Puritans, who believed it promoted gambling and laziness. It was ...

The man sitting on the bar stool next to mine had spent a few minutes complaining to no one in particular about the weather and then he turned to me and, for some mystifying reason, asked, “You ...

DAVENPORT, Iowa—This stretch of America’s heartland sits far from any U.S. border, in a manufacturing hotbed on the edge of the Silos and Smokestacks National Heritage Area. But its economy is ...

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In America, growing fears of a deadly disaster are no longer confined to the Golden State. As earthquakes hit across the country, many citizens are terrified that they too could be sitting on a ...

Hugh Cameron is Newsweek U.S. news reporter based in London, U.K. with a focus on covering American economic and business news. Hugh joined Newsweek in 2024, having worked at Alliance News Ltd ...

Ever the contrarian, he had an established history as a pest among the Puritans in his community. He arrived in America with the Puritans in 1624 and helped co-found the settlement of Merrymount ...