CLAYTON COUNTY, Ga. — As celebrations of America’s 250th anniversary kick off across the country, Americans are reflecting on the history and legacy of the nation’s founding. Just 14 miles south of ...

A blanket of muggy heat hung over the city, a sign that the seasons were shifting, when a striking, if awkward, young man arrived in Philadelphia. Stepping off a coach on May 14, 1776, he stood above ...

WIBC has voiced the historic Declaration of Independence document in full, honoring the 250th anniversary of its signing—from 1776 to 2026. On July 4, 1776, 56 men risked their fortunes, their ...

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July 4th wasn’t the day Continental Congress members decided to declare independence; they did that on July 2, 1776. It wasn’t the day they signed the document either. So what happened on July 4th?

McKaylin Peters, a 24-year-old Native American graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, still recalls when she first heard the words “merciless Indian savages.” Sitting in social studies class at ...

On July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress adopted a document introducing a new nation to the world, composed of 13 “free and independent states.” This Declaration of Independence, read to crowds ...

The United States is celebrating its 250th anniversary in 2026. It’s a major milestone for a country that was born in revolution against a king and comes at a moment when a protest movement against ...

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The New York Public Library will offer public viewing of a rare handwritten copy of the Declaration of Independence beginning Wednesday, July 1, through Tuesday, July 7, to mark the 250th anniversary ...

Yes, they were flawed; many of the men who signed the Declaration of Independence – indeed the man who wrote it – were themselves slaveholders. Yes, also: what they did in the summer of 1776 changed ...