Pioneer Day is akin to the Fourth of July for Utah. Pioneers coming here kicked off the birth of the state and gave the persecuted Latter-day Saints a homeland. This year, one celebration acknowledged ...

Old Ironsides hit the high seas for a rare outing during Sail Boston on Saturday, with a tugboat and one sail helping bring history back to the harbor. Launched in 1797, the USS Constitution is ten ...

The Grand Parade of Sail gave onlookers a chance to marvel at timelessly crafted boats that fueled generations of trade and travel. The Grand Parade of sail provided a chance for onlookers to marvel ...

While the heatwave baked city sweated and lesser cities kvetched—oh, it’s too hot!—undaunted New York history lovers, patriots, their friends and allies trod some of Manhattan’s oldest streets to ...

Thousands of people lined the sidewalks of St. Nicholas Drive, Santa Claus Lane and Fifth Avenue in North Pole on Saturday to celebrate America’s 250th anniversary and greet a massive parade of red, ...

With heat climbing to about 101 degrees, the most popular daytime events were indoors at Dover's celebration of 250 years of American independence. Museums and historic sites hosted exhibits, ...

Thousands lined the parade route and watched the 122nd annual Huntington Beach 4th of July Parade, the nation's largest Independence Day celebration west of the Mississippi. HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif.

Washington DC’s iconic Fourth of July parade Saturday was called off because of record-breaking scorching temperatures. Organizers of the decades-old America’s National Independence Day Parade ...

Alexa Herrera is a digital producer with the CBS News New York web team. She previously worked with WUFT and WTSP in Florida as a digital producer. She's a Long Island native. The biggest Fourth of ...

How could you not be patriotic? It was impossible not to count my lucky stars like the billowing white sails that dotted the New York Harbor Saturday as the globe converged in the greatest city in the ...