People gathered Tuesday at the Berks County Services Center to commemorate the first local reading of the document.

League City could soon rezone roughly 1,776 acres of land on its west side to create a planned unit development for both ...

Vague phrasing in the state’s Revolutionary-era Constitution enfranchised women who met specific property requirements. A ...

After years of escalating tension between his majesty George III’s government and American colonial leaders, a Revolutionary War had begun in April 1775. More provocations and tension followed. By the ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced the launch of America250FL, Florida's "official hub for the yearlong commemoration." ...

It is when we limit knowledge, erase history and mute voices that we constrain freedom and embark on the path to ...

To obtain and maintain the right to question our leaders is one of the reasons we chose to end our relationship with King ...

For the 249th time, Americans are getting ready to haul out the hot dogs and fire up the fireworks for the nation’s big ...

Over time, the Fourth of July became etched in public memory as the date of independence, largely because it was the day Americans first saw the finished document. It became symbolic, representing the ...

This Fourth of July was the 249th Independence Day celebration for the nation we call the United States of America.

The Declaration of Independence is full of promise and a few mysteries. A rare copy of it ended up at The Henry Ford Museum ...

News of the Declaration of Independence reached Great Britain in August 1776 and ignited a media frenzy, according to the Jack Miller Center, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit dedicated to teaching about ...