The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776. (John Trumbull) It was 249 years ago, in 1776, that 13 British colonies in North America declared their independence.

Local youth activists are advocating for change in western Massachusetts with a reading of a rewritten Declaration of ...

Six counties in Indiana–Carroll, Franklin, Hancock, Huntington, Jefferson and Rush–are named for signers of the Declaration of Independence. The text below is from the National Archives.

The Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, declaring the United States of America to be free and independent from Great Britain.

Two hundred and forty-nine years ago this week, one of the greatest documents in world history was penned. This “Declaration of Independence” shed the most powerful nation on Earth, created a ...

Few people have written more eloquently about those world-altering times—and the cultural context from which the Declaration of Independence was birthed—than Dr. Larry Arnn, author of The ...