EDITOR’S NOTE: On this, the anniversary of our nation’s independence, we think it is important to publish these words that our forefathers inked 249 years ago in declaration of our fledgling nation’s ...

A copy of the Declaration of Independence known as the July 1776 Essex Broadside will go on the block later this month. Courtesy of Sotheby's Later this month, Sotheby’s will auction off a rare piece ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lauren Milliman peered through the display glass, admiring not just what the words on the parchment said, but also the way they ...

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

IOWA CITY, Iowa — The Declaration of Independence, nearly 250 years old, draws millions of visitors from across the country. But the National Archives came to Tim Barrett and the University of Iowa ...

It was the most important writing assignment in world history. In May of 1776, John Adams, an accomplished draftsman who penned the state Constitution of Massachusetts (still the world's oldest), ...

July Fourth marked 249 years since the 13 American colonies rejected a British monarch and embraced freedom. But as we enter the first days of our 250th year on this Earth, it feels like we’re moving ...

There is no time when the Declaration of Independence‘s true meaning is not worthy of deep reflection. But certainly this Independence Day, which marks the beginning of a year of celebrating the 250th ...

July 4, 1776— -- When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of ...

In June of 1776, the Continental Congress formed a five-person committee consisting of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman and Robert R. Livingston to draft a declaration of ...