Mentor Public Library is celebrating the United States of America’s 250th anniversary all throughout 2026 with programs about the nation’s history. The series launches with a lecture about the ...

GREENVILLE, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - This week in history— Did you know there was a declaration written before the Declaration of Independence? And it was written by Thomas Jefferson. Written by Thomas ...

A homework assignment in a public high school located in Gorham, Maine, featured students being instructed to write an assignment for a "Declaration of Independence" where options like "parents" and ...

June 19, also referred to as “Juneteenth” or Freedom Day, marks the day in 1865 that Union soldiers finally read the Emancipation Proclamation to enslaved African Americans in geographically isolated ...

Thomas Jefferson’s proclamation of “self-evident truths” in the Declaration of Independence was a turning point in world ...

In between today's cookouts, pool parties and fireworks, it's important to remember Philadelphia's role in the birth of America. In the late 18th century, the city hosted the First and Second ...

The film depicts the historical events leading to the Declaration of Independence by the thirteen American colonies in 1776. It highlights the colonists' struggle for self-governance, their resistance ...

The Declaration of Independence, the most consequential and perhaps most heroic challenge to authority in human annals, reached the ear of King George III in London on this day in history, August 10, ...

The eyes lack any clear expression, though they aren’t vacant. Staring down from the upper windows of a substantial brick house at the corner of Market and Seventh streets, in the historic district ...

A July 1776 broadside of the Declaration of Independence is on offer at Sotheby’s, where it is estimated at $2 to $4 million. It comes to auction less than four years after it sold at Christie’s for ...

July 4th is Independence Day, a time to show your patriotic pride. The federal holiday marks the day in 1776 when the Second Continental Congress unanimously adopted the Declaration of Independence, ...