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 ...

One of the few remaining original copies of the Declaration of Independence will be on display today at the Arizona History Museum at 949 E. Second St. from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. The event is free and open ...

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 ...

Printed in July 1776, the Essex Broadside is attributed to Robert Luist Fowle of Exeter. It’s one of just 13 contemporary broadsides to be issued that year, and one of just 10 remaining examples known ...

Thomas Jefferson, pregnant? Lawyer, architect, statesman, violin-player. The third president of the United States was a man of multitudes, but history does not record giving birth as being among his ...

A number of prominent historians have hit out at House Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene following an X post in which she falsely claimed six key figures from American history had signed the 1776 ...

Today we print the Declaration of Independence so that its text and ideas can be interrogated by a new generation. When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve ...

In 1776, Thomas Paine set a revolutionary tone rejecting the King: “But where, say some, is the King of America? … as far as we approve of monarchy… in America the law is king.” The American ...

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the ...