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

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

July 4th wasn’t the day Continental Congress members decided to declare independence; they did that on July 2, 1776. It ...

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

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

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

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

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MIDTOWN, Manhattan (PIX11) — Just in time for Independence Day, the country’s first official capital, long before Washington, ...

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

The presentation of an original German-language translation in Berlin is an opportunity to consider the shared history of the ...

Philadelphia. June 1776. America stands on the brink. The ultimate question of independence hangs over Philadelphia. And ...