PHILADELPHIA, Pa. (WHTM) — A lot of stuff people think happened on the Fourth of July didn’t happen on the Fourth of July. The “national memory” (for want of a better term) of the Fourth of July is a ...

The Plymouth Historical Society will host constitutional scholar Meg Mott’s presentation “What the Declaration of ...

On July 4, 1776, two days after the Continental Congress voted to declare the United State's Independence, the Declaration of Independence was ratified. It took nearly a month for most of the ...

Created 1776, The United States Declaration of Independence is the pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 4, 1776. The Declaration ...

John Trumbull's painting "Declaration of Independence" shows the five-man drafting committee presenting their draft to the Second Continental Congress. The work was commissioned in 1817 and is ...

A number of prominent historians have hit out at House Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene following an X post in which she falsely claimed six key figures from American history had signed the 1776 ...

In 1776, 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence. Some of them went on to become president. One of their names is basically synonymous with “signature” today. Others have museums, monuments, and ...

Independence Day has historically led to big box office numbers during the July 4 weekend. The “Los Angeles Times” observed in 2018 that “the national holiday is now as closely associated with ...

Thomas Jefferson, pregnant? Lawyer, architect, statesman, violin-player. The third president of the United States was a man of multitudes, but history does not record giving birth as being among his ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The chief executive of U.S. private equity giant Carlyle Group bought a copy of the first newspaper printing of the U.S. Declaration of Independence for a record $632,500 on ...

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 the earth, the ...