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.

On June 19, 1865, Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger declared at Galveston, Texas, that "all slaves are free" by virtue of Lincoln's edict dated Jan. 1, 1863. It took more than two years to make the promise of ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.