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The grand events and oft-told tales of the American Revolution are easy to find among sprawling reverent battlefields and national parks. George Washington’s Mount Vernon in Virginia, Independence Hall in Pennsylvania, and Minuteman National Historical Park in Massachusetts, where the American rebellion exploded into deadly revolution 249 years ago today, April 19, 1775, top any list of highlights in the …

Katie Ledecky has worn the Stars and Stripes for Team USA in each Olympic Games since 2012, when she debuted for the women’s swimming squad in London. Since then, Ledecky has won seven gold medals, including four at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and two at the Tokyo Games in 2021. She also has three silver medals in …

The taste of revenge was served in American diners for decades. The British burned Falmouth, Maine in 1775; Fairfield, Connecticut in 1779; and Washington, D.C. in 1814. Hungry Americans returned the favor for decades every time they ordered breakfast. TAMALES ARE HOT TODAY, YET SAVORY WRAPS ARE AS OLD AS CIVILIZATION “Burn the British!” was a popular outcry from waiters …

Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman lives on as a larger-than-life figure in the oft-told annals of American military history. The most intimate and unknown details of the man behind the legend are uncovered at the Sherman House Museum in Lancaster, Ohio. It opens for the season today, Wednesday, April 10. RAISE 500-POUND PUMPKINS IN YOUR BACKYARD: 5 TIPS FROM AMERICA’S WORLD-RECORD …

The United States plunged ferociously into World War I following a vote in the House of Representatives on this day in history, April 6, 1917. President Woodrow Wilson requested a declaration of war against Germany before a joint session of Congress on April 2, as the United States faced both the threat of unrestricted submarine warfare from Germany and the …

LSU athletics were thrust into the spotlight over whether programs should be on the field or the floor for the national anthem. Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry urged state officials to enact a policy that requires student-athletes to be present for the national anthem after the LSU women’s basketball team received harsh backlash for missing “The Star-Spangled Banner” before its game …

Captain John Parker and 77 armed Americans stood on Lexington Common on what revolutionary Samuel Adams proclaimed “a glorious morning for America.” It was April 19, 1775. The “shot heard ‘round the world,” as Ralph Waldo Emerson later called it, was about to ignite the American Revolution and change world history forever. Parker was 45 years old and riddled with …

Revolutionary firebrand Patrick Henry bellowed, “Give me liberty or give me death!” while proposing to fellow Virginia leaders that the colony raise troops to battle the British on this day in history, March 23, 1775. “Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?” the rousing orator reportedly thundered before …

High school student Cameron Blasek received a patriotic paintjob free of charge for his pickup truck after East Central High School administrators in St. Leon, Indiana attempted to stop him from displaying the American flag earlier this month. Blasek, 17, proudly displayed an American flag on his truck for most of his senior year, but Blasek said school administrators told …

It was recently announced the U.S.MilitaryAcademy at West Point would remove the “Duty, Honor, Country” motto from its mission statement. Republicans,conservatives,andpeople of faith rightfully erupted in dismay over this latest movetothe “woke” by the famed institution. Rachel Campos-Duffy, co-host of “Fox & Friends Weekend,” observed: “West Point announcing they’ve gone full globalist.”Tobe sure, millions of Americans agree with her, including …