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Parade to San Diego’s Big Bay Boom, here’s a guide to dozens of ways to celebrate the Fourth of July in County.
Isabella Aldrete, the Nevada Independent It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been ...
Here's a look back at the history of Juneteenth, the holiday that commemorates the end of slavery in the United States, and how it's celebrated.
By The Associated Press More than 75 years after Flag Day became U.S. law, the stars and stripes grab our gaze these days in constant portraits of how Americans see their country’s promise ...
It’s Flag Day, a day that honors the adoption of the United States flag on June 14, 1777. The original resolution declared ...
Since President Woodrow Wilson declared June 14 Flag Day in May 1916, the United States has honored the adoption of the stars and stripes in a number of ways, including carrying the flag in parades, ...
June 14 will be chock-full of patriotic celebrations, not only because it is the U.S. Army's 250th anniversary and President Donald Trump's 79th birthday, but also due to Saturday being Flag Day. The ...
Wilson’s action came several decades after communities began Flag Day celebrations. In 1891, Philadelphia held its first — at one of Ross' former homes — and it evolved into an annual, ...
The reverence for Old Glory that inspired Flag Day came decades after the lifetime of the woman often credited with sewing the first United States national flag. Betsy Ross may ...