A Finnish American played an important role in the creation of America. How has Finland’s democracy succeeded?

The country that Morton and his colleagues created July 2, 1776, became the wealthiest, most powerful nation on earth. And the society that Morton’s distant relatives built in Finland also became one ...

The communities minister has hailed a children’s book that tells the tale of an Ulsterman who both signed America’s ...

Delegates from all thirteen colonies convene for the Second Continental Congress at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia. The representatives remain divided — some hopeful for reconciliation ...

Here are seminal moments in the development of the U.S. workplace since 1776.

On the eve of America's 250th anniversary, Morton and Finland can remind us that now is a good time for Americans to declare independence from the tyranny of hating each other. William Doyle is an ...

The Founding Fathers were the first human beings to assert that people were citizens, and had the right to elect their ...

The Reading & Northern Railroad’s newly painted Locomotive 1776 offered rides for the first time Friday at the Lehigh Gorge ...

Kidnapped from West Africa as a child and brought to Boston, Wheatley became the first African-American woman published in ...

Clinton County joined the statewide celebration of America’s upcoming 250th anniversary with the unveiling of its portion of ...