It's worth revering not just the document itself, but the men of consequence who made American independence a reality.

The US celebrates Independence Day on July 4 every year to commemorate the country's declaration of Independence from Great ...

On the occasion of US Independence Day, people across the country share messages of unity, freedom and remembrance. Many post ...

The Declaration of Independence was signed on August 2, 1776. Many people may assume it was signed on July 4, the day it was officially adopted by Congress, but it took nearly a full month to get ...

Abraham Lincoln said that the Declaration of Independence was “an ‘apple of gold’ to us. The Union, and the Constitution, are the picture of silver, subsequently framed around it.

UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #2: (As Abraham Lincoln) If that declaration is not the truth, let us get the statute book in which we find it and tear it out. UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #3: (As character) No, never.

In this Monday, June 17, 2019 photo, shown is Holly Metcalf Kinyon’s 1776 broadside printing of the Declaration of Independence at the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia.

In the spring of 1859, Abraham Lincoln was invited by a committee of Boston Republicans to attend a festival in honor of Thomas Jefferson’s birthday. He couldn’t make it.

On this Independence Day 160 years later, with jobs again going unfilled, Lincoln’s humane and sensible policy is worth remembering — and emulating. So is what Lincoln had declared at an ...

Read today, the Declaration of Independence is a freedom document. It stands for absolute human equality and represents the highest ideals of the American republic. On July 4, we celebrate it as ...