Fireworks are as American as apple pie — but humanity’s fascination with pyrotechnics predates our young country by nearly 2,000 years. China first fashioned firecrackers from hollowed-out bamboo in ...

There was a time when the Fourth of July actually meant something for most people in this country. I can remember -- and not that long ago -- a holiday that offered a little something for everybody ...

Sign up for the best picks from our travel, fashion and lifestyle writers. In late 2016 I moved to London and into a block of flats where, when encountering a ...