EDITOR’S NOTE: On this, the anniversary of our nation’s independence, we think it is important to publish these words that our forefathers inked 249 years ago in declaration of our fledgling nation’s ...

However, instead of looking ahead, we are looking back at the start of it all. On July 4, 1776, 56 men signed a document declaring 13 British colonies as one United States of America. This year, ...

It is known as the “Fair Copy” of the Declaration of Independence — a rare, early, unedited version of the nation’s founding document, drafted in Jefferson’s eloquent hand, and containing a ...

The effort of the government to spread opportunities for improvement of living standards is more important than many people realize.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This article was originally published in The Conversation. The Declaration of Independence was written by wealthy white men, but ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A good day to remember our Declaration of Independence July 4th is much more than BBQs and beer, parades and horns. It celebrates the birth of our nation, as ...

Congress formally adopted the Declaration of Independence on the afternoon of July 4, 1776. What happened next? A little-known sequence of events tells the story. It speaks volumes about the ...

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of ...

There is no time when the Declaration of Independence‘s true meaning is not worthy of deep reflection. But certainly this Independence Day, which marks the beginning of a year of celebrating the 250th ...

Editor’s note: Americans may think they know a lot about the Declaration of Independence, but many of those ideas are elitist and wrong, as historian Woody Holton explains. His 2021 book Liberty is ...

WEST CHESTER — A spirited reading of the Declaration of Independence took place Tuesday at the Uptown! Knauer Performing Arts Center. Twenty community members solemnly, and with much emotion, read the ...