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On the afternoon of July 4, 1776, the same day the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, ...

On June 12, 1987, standing before the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin, President Ronald Reagan delivered a speech ...

The Treaty of Paris, signed on September 3, 1783, formally ended the American Revolutionary War and marked one ...

On June 1, 1980, a new television network signed on with an ambitious and untested idea: broadcasting news ...

Congressman Dalip Singh Saund, the first Asian American and first Indian American elected to the U.S. Congress, is ...

On May 25, 1787, delegates gathered in Philadelphia to address a growing crisis facing the young United States. ...

For many Americans, Memorial Day marks the unofficial beginning of summer — a long weekend filled with cookouts, ...

Born from the devastation of war and inspired by one woman’s determination to bring relief to those suffering ...

Senator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii is shown in this official 2008 U.S. Senate portrait. Source: Wikimedia Commons/United States ...

On a showery Monday afternoon, May 14, 1804, a fleet of three vessels — a 55-foot keelboat and ...

On the morning of May 5, 1961, an American astronaut named Alan Shepard sat strapped inside a cramped ...

Ellison S. Onizuka, Mission Specialist and U.S. Air Force officer, in his official NASA portrait. Photo credit: NASA ...