Then why don’t we celebrate Independence Day on July 2nd? Well, the 4th of July is when the Declaration of Independence was ...

As America marks 250 years since the Declaration of Independence, historians say Miami was a sparsely populated British ...

Baird • mthomas@aimmediamidwest.com BOWLING GREEN — The Declaration of Independence is a unique document not just in the history of the United States but in the world. It doesn’t just ...

Facts you may not know Independence Day is the day we as Americans celebrate the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, ...

As Baltimore's postmaster and printer to the Continental Congress, Mary Katharine Goddard produced the first official copy of ...

Educators are finding engaging ways to teach the Declaration of Independence on the 250th anniversary of its signing.

The Declaration of Independence is a document that indicates the founding principles of the United States of America. The declaration was issued by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, ...

A lost Philadelphia observatory once used to track the transit of Venus may be the place where the Declaration of Independence was read publicly for the first time.

One of the nation’s establishing documents calls Indigenous people “merciless Indian savages.” Today, many say the phrase has ...

Georgians Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall and George Walton appear on America’s 1776 founding document, but their path to ...

John Trumbull’s iconic paintings, such as his depiction of George Washington resigning his commission and the presentation of the Declaration of Independence, provide a unique historical ...

Joseph J. Thorndike examines the historical context behind the single tax grievance in the Declaration of Independence.