Leaders of South Carolina’s three branches of government commemorated a non-partisan event — the 250th year of the ...

The original printing is just one of 26 known remaining copies, and one of three located west of the Appalachian Mountains.

Editor’s note: Americans may think they know a lot about the Declaration of Independence, but many of those ideas are elitist and wrong, as historian Woody Holton explains. His 2021 book Liberty is ...

Hoosiers don’t have to travel to Washington, D.C. or Philadelphia to see one of the most important artifacts of the American Revolution; starting this month, just one of just 26 surviving copies of ...

On July 2, 1776, the Second Continental Congress voted unanimously to declare independence from Great Britain. Approximately 20 percent of the members of Congress were opposed to separation, but some ...

As we near July Fourth, one fascinating story from American history will remain largely untold: how the Declaration of Independence — the document itself — was written, copied and stored. The whole ...

Joseph Postell is associate professor of politics at Hillsdale College and a visiting fellow in the B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies at The Heritage Foundation. He is the author of the ...

As the nation approaches the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, students from the region surrounding Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site are being invited to reflect on how the ...

Humans have produced some great sentences over the years, such as this one from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby,” “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the ...