More than 200 community members gathered on Taunton’s Church Green on July 8th for ...

Historians say Albany's first public Declaration reading came during violent political turmoil that split families, neighbors ...

The Declaration of Independence, ratified July 4, 1776, proclaimed the American colonies' separation from Britain and outlined key grievances and ideals.

It still continues because the flame of liberty and independence still burns in the heart of every American patriot.” With that in mind, it’s worth looking at the Declaration of Independence, signed ...

The new exhibition, which shows how the document was edited, also features an early copy of the Gettysburg Address ...

Independence Day commemorates the day representatives from the thirteen colonies voted to separate from the United ...

I can’t think of a more fitting celebration of this Fourth of July than a reading of Walter Isaacson’s thin volume “The Greatest Sentence Ever Written.” Isaacson is an influential public scholar and ...

Today, we celebrate the 250th birthday of our nation, on the grounds that this is the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. It was enacted by the Second Continental Congress, which ...

Historian Andrew Davenport arrived at Monticello with an extraordinary background: He knew that at the very moment Thomas Jefferson wrote a book called “Notes on the State of Virginia” that ridiculed ...