British-born Thomas Paine helped inspire the 13 English colonies to declare independence and form the United States of America.

The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in Washington explores the complexity of America's past.

Thomas Edison and Henry Ford are famous for their innovations in electricity generation and automobiles respectively, but they were also at the forefront of a massively popular trend in Florida: Rich people from up north spending the cold winter months in the Sunshine State.

The military parade commemorating the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary and coinciding with Donald Trump’s 79th birthday will be a new spectacle for many Americans.

After four decades in Park City, Utah, the Sundance Film Festival is relocating to Boulder, Colorado.

Thomas Edison's pioneering incandescent light bulb, which cast illumination by heating a filament until it glowed, is fading into history.

Hard of hearing, Thomas Edison found a unique way to appreciate piano music.

The construction of the Grand Hotel is a story of incredible ambition and creativity to meet a seemingly impossible deadline.

Today is Wednesday, Oct. 21, the 295th day of 2020. On Oct. 21, 1879, Thomas Edison perfected a workable electric light at his laboratory in Menlo Park, N.J. In 1960, Democrat John F. Kennedy and Republican Richard M. Nixon clashed in their fourth and final presidential debate in New York. In 1971, President Richard Nixon nominated Lewis F. Powell and William H. Rehnquist to the U.S. Supreme Court. In 2001, Washington, D.C., postal worker Thomas L. Morris Jr. died of inhalation anthrax as officials began testing thousands of postal employees.