On the night of April 18, 1775, a rider set out from Boston on the eve of the American Revolution to warn colonists across ...

The series, launched the same day as the first engagement ... commemorating the start of America's fight for independence this weekend with a reading of the poem "Paul Revere's Ride" by White ...

Stephen Vincent Benét (1898–1943) had a name to conjure with, back in the day. Once upon a time, all of literate America knew his book-length poem about the Civil War, “John Brown’s Body” (1928) and ...

for the Poem of the Day feature here in The New York Sun. In part that’s because so many of his best poems are too long to read in a morning article: the Whitman of a capacious spirit, writing deep, ...

he described what would later be known as Independence Day, predicting it would become “the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America. − I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated ...

the Congress voted unanimously for independence. The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America. John Adams, Co-author of the Declaration of Independence ...