This weekend, we celebrate Independence Day. This is one of my favorite holidays because, No. 1, it’s in the summer, and No. 2, there are fireworks, and who doesn’t love those? The real reason for the ...

Alice's Garden hosts first annual event commemorating Caroline Quarlls' journey on the Underground Railroad through Milwaukee ...

At Independence Day ceremonies in Jamesport Friday, reminders to cherish our freedom and honor the people who have fought to protect and defend it.

Procession kicks off from Boston City Hall Plaza at 9 a.m. and meanders to the Old State House for the annual reading of the ...

Columnist Jonathan Lange writes, “The deleted paragraph demonstrates how kicking the can down the road never solves the problem. More often, it makes ...

The original Declaration of Independence is a permanent exhibit at the museum, but this weekend, they’re opening the vault and showing off some historic documents, including an original first edition ...

In 1852, nearly a century after the Declaration of Independence was signed, Frederick Douglass famously asked, “What to the ...

Jefferson, an avid weather observer, kept meticulous climate records throughout his life. In Philadelphia, during the summer ...

On a hot, steamy day in Philadelphia, a group of delegates to the Continental Congress gathered to celebrate the final ...

Political and biblical inheritance are far more responsible for the modern-day United States than revolution, liberal ...

Read the Declaration of Independence, the historic document drafted by Thomas Jefferson and signed by 56 delegates.

Thousands of merchants and other businessmen from Massachusetts down to Georgia were quite wary of what belligerence to England might do to their livelihoods – and thus as of early the following year, ...