Amid the political and social upheaval of the 1960s, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. drew directly and self-consciously on the declaration. In his 1963 “ I Have a Dream” speech, King defined an ...

From the Declaration of Independence to the 9/11 terror attacks, these are the most important dates in American history.

COLUMN. In a spectacular documentary, the filmmaker advocates for a nuanced and diverse understanding of the history of the American War of Independence against the British Crown – a perspective that ...

Mark Guiney is the manager of video production in Digital Productions at The Heritage Foundation. He also produces and creates video for The Daily Signal. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, ...

Students at Nipmuc Regional High School recently got a rare opportunity to view two handwritten copies of the Declaration of ...

When you picture the American Revolution, you probably see powdered wigs, crowded battlefields and bold declarations of freedom. But what’s often missing from that mental image? The women. From ...

If it seems like fireworks have been a staple of Independence Day in the U.S. since almost the beginning, that's because they have, AccuWeather explains. Fireworks have been a part of cultural ...

PHILADELPHIA — More than 400 photos of exhibits at Independence National Historical Park have been digitally archived, ensuring a form of preservation amid the Trump administration’s attempts to ...

In the mid-1950s, the U.S. quietly opened a door that could have changed Puerto Rican history forever.