July 4th of this year will mark the 250th anniversary of the adoption by the “Representatives of the United States in General Congress assembled” of that country’s Declaration of Independence. The ...

On the Fourth of July 1776, congressional delegates in Philadelphia adopted the Declaration of Independence, then ordered that it be widely “proclaimed.” Couriers carried the printed version by ...

Thomas Jefferson's original draft of the Declaration of Independence included clauses condemning the slave trade. Historian Holly Brewer's research suggests the founders believed "all men are created ...

The summer of 1776 was a fraught time in New York. British ships massed in New York Harbor, preparing for an invasion. New York City Mayor David Mathews was arrested by British forces on June 22, 1776 ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – The Charleston Museum will display an original copy of the Declaration of Independence this summer. According to the museum, the copy was printed in Charleston in 1776 by ...

Michael Auslin is a fellow at the Hoover Institution and author of “National Treasure: How the Declaration of Independence Made America,” from which this article was adapted. On the morning of May 6, ...

Three North Texas counties are now under a disaster declaration in the wake of strong storms that tore through the region over the weekend and into the beginning of the week. Gov. Greg Abbott issued ...

Many speeches will be delivered this year about the Declaration of Independence as we celebrate its 250th birthday. However, I think the greatest was just delivered by Supreme Court Justice Clarence ...

Proof-of-concept exploit code has been published for a critical remote code execution flaw in protobuf.js, a widely used JavaScript implementation of Google's Protocol Buffers. The tool is highly ...

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas argued that the principles of the Declaration of Independence should be lived, not treated as abstract, intellectualized theories during a lecture this week at ...

The Declaration of Independence, approved on July 4, 1776, dissolved the American colonies' political ties with Great Britain. It listed grievances against King George III, including quartering troops ...

As the United States celebrates its semiquincentennial, a new exhibit in Philadelphia is showing off rare printings of the Declaration of Independence. Next to Independence Hall is the American ...