A new pedestrian bridge at the Great Falls in Paterson provides closer views of the waterfalls that powered America's first ...

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Sunday marks the 295th birthday of George Washington, the first president of the United States. While endless volumes have ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Marquis de Lafayette was part French nobleman, part American patriot. (Wikimedia Commons) As the United States approaches the ...

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Black spies used their invisibility in plain sight to carry out some of the nation’s most important war efforts. When most people think of history’s American spies, they imagine a sleuthy white man, ...

Gene Pisasale is an historian, author, and lecturer based in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. “It appears to me, then, little short of a miracle, that the Delegates from so many different States … should ...

A sixth person was arrested Wednesday in connection with the shooting of a judge and his wife in their home in Lafayette, Indiana, in January, local officials said. The Lafayette Police Department ...

EASTON, Pa. - You could say Lafayette College's Kirby Sports Center was the room where it happens, or at least happened, on Thursday night. Lin-Manuel Miranda, the award-winning actor, composer, ...

LAFAYETTE, La. — Krewe de Canailles officially kicks off Lafayette's Mardi Gras parade season with their walking parade through downtown, happening Friday, Feb. 6. This year's parade embraces ...

LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A sixth person has been arrested in connection with the Jan. 18 shooting of a Tippecanoe County judge and his wife. In a Feb. 4 press release, the Lafayette Police Department ...