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 ...

Americans are about to celebrate the fight for independence from Great Britain, and few events in the history of the United States are as deeply ingrained in our culture as the Fourth of July. Parades ...

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

As we gather to celebrate the Fourth of July, we are reminded not only of the fireworks and festivities but also of the significant historical event that this day commemorates—the adoption of the ...

The film depicts the historical events leading to the Declaration of Independence by the thirteen American colonies in 1776. It highlights the colonists' struggle for self-governance, their resistance ...

The Latinate term for the upcoming 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence is “semiquincentennial,” which ...

In between today's cookouts, pool parties and fireworks, it's important to remember Philadelphia's role in the birth of America. In the late 18th century, the city hosted the First and Second ...

The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove ...

The eyes lack any clear expression, though they aren’t vacant. Staring down from the upper windows of a substantial brick house at the corner of Market and Seventh streets, in the historic district ...

Article submitted by Beverly Foster, president of the Walker County African American Historical and Alumni Association Inc.

A July 1776 broadside of the Declaration of Independence is on offer at Sotheby’s, where it is estimated at $2 to $4 million. It comes to auction less than four years after it sold at Christie’s for ...