Then why don’t we celebrate Independence Day on July 2nd? Well, the 4th of July is when the Declaration of Independence was ...

Streeter copy, printed by Robert Luist Fowle, is one of only 10 surviving Exeter broadsides and one of just 120 surviving ...

One of the nation’s establishing documents calls Indigenous people “merciless Indian savages.” Today, many say the phrase has ...

The copy of one of the nation's foundational documents almost never sees the light of day. The museum is making an exception ...

As Baltimore's postmaster and printer to the Continental Congress, Mary Katharine Goddard produced the first official copy of ...

Educators are finding engaging ways to teach the Declaration of Independence on the 250th anniversary of its signing.

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On July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress adopted a document introducing a new nation to the world, composed of 13 “free and ...

The event is being organized by the Elberta Labor Heritage Center in partnership with the City of Frankfort and America250MI.

Georgians Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall and George Walton appear on America’s 1776 founding document, but their path to ...

Joseph J. Thorndike examines the historical context behind the single tax grievance in the Declaration of Independence.

The relay kicks off July 1 in Point Reyes and moves through Alameda and Contra Costa counties over the following week. Anyone ...