Philadelphia has been celebrating Founding Father Benjamin Franklin's birthday with events around the city this week. January 17, 2026 marks 320 years since Franklin was born in Boston.

It’s 2026, and we’re celebrating America’s 250th birthday, but a couple of our Founding Fathers have celebrations on tap — ...

Colonial Philadelphia — a community of wooden dwellings and businesses along the Delaware River back in the 1700s — was under ...

During a talk in Palm Beach, filmmaker Ken Burns discussed the ideas behind the U.S. Revolutionary War, the subject of his ...

Although our nation will celebrate its birth in July of this year, its story of independence begins several years prior. Throughout the times beginning in about 1773 the flames for freedom were being ...

It’s still the first month of America’s 250th birthday year, but it’s already clear that dark clouds are on the horizon.

The Queens court community held their second annual Martin Luther King Day of Service event on Thursday, honoring the civil ...

Scotland’s national bard Robert Burns never crossed the Atlantic but his words did. Now Herald columnist Ian Houston is to give a lecture at ...

Martin Luther King Jr. delivering the "I Have a Dream Speech" on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on ...

Benjamin Irvin Pendleton 96 of Greenwood passed away January 9, 2026, at Life’s Journey Hospice in Avon, Indiana. He was born ...

Incidents of serious crime on SEPTA fell again last year, reaching their lowest levels in at least a decade. SEPTA police ...

The Griffins were defeated, 3-1. (January 16, 2026) ...