People have been left surprised to see what the view is like from the Statue of Liberty's torch, which was closed to the ...

U.S. Marines raised an American flag on the Japanese island’s highest peak exactly 80 years ago. But the fighting, some of the deadliest of World War II, would rage on for a month.

But few Viking explorers could match what Martinson, 98, experienced 80 years ago: the invasion of Iwo Jima, considered by ...

Lafayette’s Bicentennial Farewell Tour will end in June when, just as he did during his tour 200 years ago, he heads into ...

Feb. 22, 2000: She was a high-society heiress who devoted her fortune to education the poor. And now, 45 years after her death, the founder of Santa Fe's St. Catherine Indian school is poised to ...

Waimea Bay is sacred ground in big wave surfing. It is the site of the world’s most prestigious surf contest, the annual ...

The overall number of respiratory virus cases in hospital emergency departments dropped last week for the first time in five ...

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration falsely claims tens of millions of dead people over 100 years old are receiving Social ...

Then we went to Ellis Island to learn how people, for more than 100 years, ventured across the ocean in their desire to immigrate to the United States. It was named after Samuel Ellis, a Welsh ...

Groundhog Day is a custom brought to the United States with the arrival of German immigrants, particularly the Pennsylvania Dutch of Pennsylvania. Deutsch is the German word for Germans, and has ...

In the shadow of New York City, the biggest and one of the bluesiest cities in America, Nassau and Suffolk Counties have seen ...

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