This week, our nation celebrated the Fourth of July. It was not only an opportunity for families and friends to get together and enjoy fireworks and barbecues, it was also a chance to reflect on this ...

What our community organizations accomplish is wonderful and is what makes Edwardsville such a special place, writes Mayor.

Doubleday Field and the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum may be the stars of Cooperstown's lineup, but the ...

A document beginning, ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident,’ meaning obvious, kindles something new: The American spirit.

In his Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln asserted that the United States was “a government of the people, by the people, ...

Echo Sound won the Grade 3 Victory Ride on Thursday, the first day of Saratoga's July 4th Racing Festival. Her trainer, Rusty ...

On this day before our Independence day, The Battle of Gettysburg ended, signaling the end of the Civil War that took over 600,000 lives. The Battle of Gettysburg marked the turning point of the Civil ...

Thursday marks the final day of the 162nd anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg. The battle happened back in 1683 from July ...

In every generation, the Declaration of Independence has stood for a more expansive promise of freedom and equality.

COMMENTARY By likening Trump's immigrant-demonization crusade to Lincoln's abolition of slavery, Miami U.S. Rep. María Elvira ...

Every July Fourth brings fireworks, picnics, parades and happy celebrations of American freedom. But behind the festivities ...