It's crucial today to acknowledge that for 249 years thousands of Americans have fought to protect the ideas of the American ...

The Declaration of Independence is a revolutionary document that transformed governance from monarchy to democracy and ...

Our freedom is not so we can do whatever we want. We are free to serve and worship God. The world wants no rules or laws, but ...

Over time, the Fourth of July became etched in public memory as the date of independence, largely because it was the day Americans first saw the finished document. It became symbolic, representing the ...

“Today you reap the fruits of their success,” Douglass told his audience. “The freedom gained is yours, and you, therefore, ...

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

News of the Declaration of Independence reached Great Britain in August 1776 and ignited a media frenzy, according to the Jack Miller Center, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit dedicated to teaching about ...

Eagle sports columnist Howard Herman celebrates the Fourth of July with some edicts from around his world of sports.

Meadow Garden held a cannon salute and had a soldier camp display as part of their Independence Day celebrations.

It's been 249 years since the Declaration of Independence was passed by the Continental Congress in 1776, which the holiday ...

Though John Adams was old and ill when he died, the curious timing of his demise sparked countless unusual theories.