A Liberty Tree will be planted in the borough in celebration of the nation’s 250th anniversary in 2026, officials announced Friday. Micah Gursky, Tamaqua Community Partnership director, said the tree ...

“In preparation for the country’s 250th anniversary, the Masonic Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania, in conjunction with the America250PA Committee ... “The last surviving Liberty Tree of the original 13 ...

The 13 original colonies of the United States were the foundation of what would become a new nation, born from a blend of ambition, conflict and compromise. These colonies stretched along the Atlantic ...

This is the first in a series. As we near the 250th anniversary of American independence, I have decided to concentrate on the little-known heroes and events. If you ask a group of citizens if they ...

Two very different groups of colonial revolutionaries gathered in July of 1776. The Continental Congress met in Philadelphia, ...

Sweden might have ruled a second American country encompassing what is today New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, perhaps even expanding further west into ... There would not be an ...

The state of Rhode Island was the last among the 13 colonies to ratify the Constitution of the United States, entering the Union in May 1790. Since then, the state has been participating in every ...

Many Americans don't want to hear it, but the Electoral College is a uniquely damaging system that wildly distorts the will ...

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has become a rather key state when it comes to elections, but doubts arise about that ...

Pennsylvania is a state well known for its love of pretzels, so much so that one part of the state is popularly known as the ...

Kamala Harris has spent all of Monday in Pennsylvania, whose 19 electoral ... He resides in Alamo, Texas, just 8 miles (13 kilometers) from the border. This year, at age 78, he voted for the ...

As the campaign draws to a close, both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are holding their last rallies in Pennsylvania ... of the country's original Thirteen Colonies, and its political role ...