The seniors are all coming with crutches and canes. They're shuffling and walking, ignoring their pains. It's a Christmas Party in July; whoever thought of such a thing? Must be some kind of modern ...

Fourth of July is among poet Dorianne Laux’s favorite holidays. It’s also a holiday she dreads. For one, she says, fireworks are beautiful from a distance, but the massive displays we shoot off every ...

The Fourth of July makes for the perfect opportunity to spend some time thinking about America and its past, present, and future. The authors of these Fourth of July poems certainly have done just ...

Abolitionist and civil rights leader Frederick Douglass gave his powerful “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” 172 years ago. The speech was a powerful illustration of the disparity between the ...

Using what she had laying around her apartment, Stiles created a display for the bulletin board that included the little flag and her poem. It's on display at Oxford House and will remain there ...

A free daily email with the biggest news stories of the day – and the best features from TheWeek.com Contact me with news and offers from other Future brands Receive email from us on behalf of our ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

America is pretty awesome, right? We have our flaws like any country, but all of the songs, movies, books, and patriotic poems written about our great nation really show how special it is. And since ...