It sometimes seems in America these days that our political divisions and polarization are unprecedented, but history reminds us otherwise. On July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress, concluding ...

On what would have been the 100th anniversary of this July 4th tradition, The New York Times reportedly forgot to print the Declaration of Independence in its newspaper this year. After disgruntled ...

The Declaration of Independence, submitted to the Continental Congress on June 28, 1776, approved on July 2 and declared on July 4, is the document in which the 13 American colonies formally stated ...

A copy of the Declaration of Independence known as the July 1776 Essex Broadside will go on the block later this month. Courtesy of Sotheby's Later this month, Sotheby’s will auction off a rare piece ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Today’s column was going to be about earmarks and pork-barrel spending. Or why the governor ...

When Dartmouth College history professor Matthew Delmont recently re-read the Declaration of Independence — signed 244 years ago this weekend in steamy Philadelphia — he paused at a word repeated 10 ...

Until the founding of the United States of America, the nations of the West did not have to set forth the reasons for their existence and the basis of their authority. Land and blood established the ...

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 ...

July 4, 1776— -- When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of ...

In June of 1776, the Continental Congress formed a five-person committee consisting of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman and Robert R. Livingston to draft a declaration of ...