BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION On January 1, 2026, the United States began our year-long commemoration of an important Every child deserves a safe and nurturing home ...

Created 1776, The United States Declaration of Independence is the pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 4, 1776. The Declaration ...

Ahead of the America 250 celebration, TN attorney Paul Summers begins a public civics study, starting with a look at the ...

The Declaration of Independence is the pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 4, 1776. The Declaration explained why the 13 colonies at ...

The Declaration of Independence is up for sale, but it will cost more than most of us can afford. Despite this, the edition ...

On July 4, 1776, the Declaration of Independvlence was adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia, Pa. With one voice, the 56 representatives from 13 olonies announced to the ...

The document will be alongside other rare American artifacts in a Goldin auction to mark the country's 250th anniversary.

Editor's note: In honor of Independence Day — this year, we mark 249 years since the United States parted with Great Britain — we present the nation's founding document, the Declaration of ...

Thomas Jefferson writes the Declaration of Independence and proclaims all men are created equal. Thomas Jefferson is tasked with writing a first draft of what will become the Declaration of ...

SINCLAIRVILLE – At the recent meeting of the Valley Historical society in Sinclairville, John Sipos, historian for the Town of Stockton and the Village of Cassadaga, presented to all those in ...

Historian Andrew Davenport arrived at Monticello with an extraordinary background: He knew that at the very moment Thomas Jefferson wrote a book called “Notes on the State of Virginia” that ridiculed ...

The Latinate term for the upcoming 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence is “semiquincentennial,” which doesn’t roll off the tongue easily. (You can use the alternative Latinates ...