Crowds flocked to Castle Island to check out Old Ironsides and its annual Fourth of July turnaround in Boston Harbor, along ...

The Declaration of Independence has some notes about “the Right of the People to alter or to abolish” its existing government ...

The Declaration of Independence is full of promise and a few mysteries. A rare copy of it ended up at The Henry Ford Museum ...

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain ...

The US government is already preparing massive celebrations of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution for next ...

As knowledge about the Constitution ebbs, so does allegiance to it. And because the Constitution was designed in significant ...

As America begins its 250th year, it is fitting to draw attention to the great people and ideas that made it possible. Neither the Declaration of Independence of 1776 nor the Constitution of 1787 ...

Explore this selection of paintings, poems, compositions and more to commemorate Independence Day.

General George Washington rode into Cambridge, Massachusetts, to lead an army of 16,000. These men, Washington announced, ...

As we celebrate our nation's founding in a tumultuous time, holiday serves as a reminder to appreciate the freedoms enshrined ...

In 1852, nearly a century after the Declaration of Independence was signed, Frederick Douglass famously asked, “What to the ...

The original Declaration of Independence is a permanent exhibit at the museum, but this weekend, they’re opening the vault ...