As America turns 250, we trace the triumphs, contradictions and arguments that shaped the world’s first liberal republic And ...

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

America’s 250th birthday promises to inflame controversies about the character of the country’s founding — and it key ...

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 250th anniversary is keyed to the Declaration of Independence, ratified on July 4, 1776. Years of tension between the ...

There is no time when the Declaration of Independence‘s true meaning is not worthy of deep reflection. But certainly this Independence Day, which marks the beginning of a year of celebrating the 250th ...

Several women made a behind-the-scenes push for liberty from the British. — -- Most of us know the words toward the beginning of the Declaration of Independence, the part about all men being ...

A historic copy of the Declaration of Independence will be on display at the Museum of the American Revolution as part of a new exhibit the opens this fall. The poster-sized copy of the Declaration, ...

PLATTSBURGH — The Valcour Battle Chapter Sons of the American Revolution will present a reenactment of the public reading of the Declaration of Independence at 10 a.m. July 5 in Veterans Park on the U ...