The Declaration of Independence is full of promise and a few mysteries. A rare copy of it ended up at The Henry Ford Museum ...

Crowds flocked to Castle Island to check out Old Ironsides and her annual Fourth of July turnaround in Boston Harbor, along ...

One local printing company is giving out free copies of historical documents to help celebrate America's history.

This Friday marks the first Fourth of July that the bald eagle – often seen flying near lakes across the Inland Northwest – is our country’s national bird.

In communities across the United States ... Bald eagles, the sunrise and fishing with his grandchildren. “There's no other place like it ... from Maine to Florida,’’ he said. Across the river and ...

Colorado’s bald eagle population is thriving. After dwindling to three or four nests in the 1970s, there are now estimated to be over 300 nests across the state. In the last decade, this growth has ...

The United States has about 55,630 breeding pairs. Bald eagles are federally protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act.

A Canadian photographer captured a gripping encounter between a bald eagle and a Canada goose on a frozen lake. The goose successfully defended itself, and the eagle retreated.

WEST ORANGE, N.J. (AP) — Along the long road from American icon to endangered species and back again, the bald eagle — the national bird of the United States, often seen against a clear blue ...

“The bald eagle has been a universally recognizable symbol of patriotism in this country for centuries, but that wasn’t made official until President Biden signed it into law,” Smith said. “I was glad ...

The bald eagle became the United States national bird on Dec. 24, 2024, approximately 242 years after most Americans assumed it already was our national bird.

In the 1780s, when the bald eagle became a symbol of the United States, “anecdotal accounts” stated the country might have had 100,000 nesting eagles, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...