This Memorial Day op-ed discusses our duty to honor fallen heroes who protected freedoms and our Constitution.

Next year, when this Wayne County town celebrates its 200th birthday, the United States will be celebrating its 250th ...

June 17–22 cross-country rally celebrates 250 years of American democracy—and the 250th birthdays of the U.S. Army, Navy, and ...

By John Hood Our state’s official seal presents North Carolina as a series of dualities. In the background of the circular emblem are green-topped mountains to the west and crystal-blue water to the ...

From $2.50 beer to bike rides, here’s how to celebrate Charlotte’s own Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence.

May 20 is "Meck Dec Day," marking the date in 1775 when the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence was said to have been ...

On the 250th anniversary, the WCNC Charlotte Verify team digs deeper into the debates surrounding the holiday.

A surprise dead-of-night attack helped lead to US independence from the British. Now, a series of events are commemorating ...

Textbooks, historians and descendants of Revolutionary War soldiers agree: the earliest live rounds of combat broke out at ...