Declaration of Independence arrived in Charleston. It was brought to South Carolina by courier on horseback after the final ...

Historians say Albany's first public Declaration reading came during violent political turmoil that split families, neighbors ...

The new exhibition, which shows how the document was edited, also features an early copy of the Gettysburg Address ...

Michael Scurr, a retired insurance broker, found the text while cataloging boxes of 18th-century correspondence housed at the ...

Independence Day commemorates the day representatives from the thirteen colonies voted to separate from the United ...

In preparation for the arrival of a rare Declaration of Independence copy, a local library held a historical event detailing ...

With the U.S. celebrating its 250th anniversary, the year 1776 came alive in downtown White Plains on July 12 as colonists marched to the American Legion Post on Mitchell Place for a reenactment of ...

At the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia 250 years ago, 13 colonies declared they were a free and independent union. As the war against Britain raged on, the Declaration of Independence ...

While Americans celebrate July 4 as the nation’s birthday, another summer day in 1776 marked one of the boldest acts of the Revolutionary War. Nearly a month after Congress approved the Declaration of ...

A rare July 1776 printing of the Declaration of Independence anchored a blockbuster sale of Americana at Goldin, the Runnemede, New Jersey-based auction house that closed its USA 250th Anniversary ...

A Providence Journal article about presidential wines inspired an Indiana reader. The reader, Carol Bogigian, planned a July ...