South Carolina originally sent five delegates to the Second Continental Congress but only one, Edward Rutledge, remained to ...

The only reason Jefferson could call certain truths 'self-evident' is that he was living in a world shaped by Judeo-Christian ...

Erie News Now is northwestern Pennsylvania's leading source for breaking news, weather, sports and community coverage you can ...

Your guide to fireworks, parades and other July 4 celebrations in and around Palm Desert and throughout Riverside County.

Frederick Douglass 1852 speech both extolls principles in the Declaration of Independence (and Constitution) and condemns ...

July Fourth is a reminder that the most patriotic act is not blind ceremony. Instead, it’s the resolve to resist tyranny.

More than 60 years later, then-President Jimmy Carter, carrying on the tradition of the yearly presidential proclamation on ...

This Fourth of July, the Capital Region will be honoring the past with public readings of the Declaration of Independence.

Just two years after it was bought for $4, it was sold at Sotheby’s for $2,420,000, establishing a record at the time for any ...

It's worth revering not just the document itself, but the men of consequence who made American independence a reality.

A rare broadside of the "Declaration of Independence, July 1776, on view at Seth Kaller Inc., Historic Documents & Legacy ...