This might seem like a bad time to be talking about the wonders of American democracy. The world’s most powerful nation is ...

Pope Leo XIV is praying for the United States to recommit itself to its founding ideals on the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. History’s first U.S.-born pope recalled ...

The celebrations in the US capital will feature 850,000 fireworks, a "really long" speech from the president and scorching ...

The hotter the weather, the more fireworks Noah McNamee says he sells in the parking lot of a grocery store in Kanawha County. He expects hundreds of customers ...

At 50-year intervals, the U.S. has marked the Declaration of Independence at important junctures in the country’s history ...

As the United States commemorates the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Ferguson Wellman Capital Management is sharing “American Ledger, a 250-Year Financial Perspective” from the ...

In the months leading up to the nation’s 250th birthday, a photographer set out to capture moments showing the lasting spirit ...

Jane Calvert has spent 25 years championing John Dickinson, a lesser-known Revolutionary War figure ...

H eaven created all persons in the same rut.” This is how one early Japanese translation of the Declaration of Independence ...

Content with his intellectual, architectural and other pursuits at home in Monticello, Thomas Jefferson had no intention of becoming a political leader during the founding of America.

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them ...