A powerful new exhibit in Philadelphia traces the ripple effects of the Declaration of Independence across the globe and ...

Institutions around the country are preparing for the nation’s 250th anniversary, even in the face of political crosswinds.

The stone arch would be constructed just across the Potomac River from the Lincoln Memorial — soaring above that memorial’s ...

On Independence Day, we present the Declaration of Independence. 2025 marks 249 years since the United States’ founding document was adopted by the delegates to the Second Continental Congress in ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Rick Atkinson urged New Orleans leaders to treasure institutions that prevent power from ...

Are you gearing up for next summer’s semiquincentennial — the 250th anniversary — of our nation’s birth? You should be. So, too, especially, should teachers and students during the new school year ...

The Arsenal building in downtown Beaufort stands as one of the oldest structures in South Carolina's second oldest city, but ...

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 ...

The Declaration of Independence is the pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 4, 1776. The Declaration explained why the 13 colonies at ...

America's declaration of political independence is a story Americans are familiar with. But few know the story of America's declaration of cultural independence, which took the form of a speech by ...