After construction problems delayed its launch by a year, Tootsie’s Tea has opened at 2406 W. Clybourn St. It’s an Indigenous ...

The annual 4th of July block party that got its start for America's bicentennial in 1976 has not missed a party in 50 years.

Some Native nations are skipping America 250 festivities. Others are showing up to explain their side of history.

There will bemore thanthe usual July Fourth parades and fireworks to celebrate America’s 250th anniversary. But if you really want to honor the democracy that the American Revolution ushered in, read ...

U.S. history knowledge is declining in schools. An MPS teacher tried changing that by bringing America 250 lessons to her ...

Vagabond in downtown Milwaukee is closing its doors after serving creative street tacos since 2014, but it might reopen ...

The ball will drop in Times Square to ring in America's 250 anniversary. But how many times is it set to fall?

USA TODAY reporters retrace iconic American journeys for the nation’s 250th and what they found says a lot about who we are now.

Because of a state law passed a decade ago, neither Lincoln Avenue, nor any other school built before 1974, can be required to install sprinklers.

Taken together, our findings suggest Americans see a growing gap between the people and the institutions meant to represent them.

I have followed the long, drawn-out and failed story of the Knowles-Nelson stewardship program reauthorization (“Knowles-Nelson ends, stalled in Legislature,” June 29). The failure means funding for ...

USA TODAY’s Trevor Hughes on the Underground Railroad - from brutal conditions to the everyday courage of Black Americans finding a way to freedom.