When the first settlers arrived in Jamestown in April 1607 and raised a cross at Cape Henry, claiming the land for England, ...

Tomorrow officially kicks off the 2024 end of the year Holiday Season. Since President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed it so in 1863, Thanksgiving Day has been a National Holiday. In 1621, the Plymouth ...

The bloodiest war in American history began a century before the Declaration of Independence when Native Americans tried to ...

Downing Street has responded to speculation there are plans for a new bank holiday next year to give the country a four-day ...

When the Mayflower set sail in 1620, it relied on hemp, a plant that now holds the potential for a U.S.-based industrial ...

IN the 18th and much of the 19th century, sugar was among the most profitable investments in the world. Most Caribbean countries were founded and populated ...

Council chiefs have been warned they may be breaking the law by sending thousands of people on housing waiting lists in ...

Now threatening citizens for what they post online, one would hardly believe that England had once possessed a hard-won ...

Starring Saoirse Ronan as a young mother, the film celebrates Londoners' resilience in the face of an eight-month Nazi aerial ...

Settlers in Massachusetts needed cash, but England wouldn't send any. So, they created their own mint in Boston and began ...

While Virginia didn’t celebrate Thanksgiving, Alexandria did in 1819 and 1820, according to the Alexandria Herald.

Collectors snapped at an unprecedented opportunity to acquire a coveted 1652 threepence coin from America's first mint at ...