The 20-year-old Colonial-style three-bedroom isn’t her own home, but it does sit just a few minutes from her family’s weekend place in the pastoral heart of New York’s Westchester County.

Author Russell Shorto often visited St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery’s cemetery when he lived in New York City’s East Village neighborhood a quarter-century ago. It was home to the remains of Peter ...

With Saturday’s anniversary, the United States is looking back to its war of independence and asking where its legacy stands ...