More than two centuries after July 4, 1776, the men who signed the Declaration of Independence — especially John Hancock — are famous. But the woman whose name also appears on the document, or at ...

Leaders of South Carolina’s three branches of government commemorated a non-partisan event — the 250th year of the ...

They launched a bold experiment to create a new nation where the government answered to the people, not the other way around. The experiment was built on a few core principles — human dignity, the ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Author Walter Isaacson explained why the first sentence in the Preamble to the Declaration of Independence is important. Author Walter Isaacson ...

The Latinate term for the upcoming 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence is “semiquincentennial,” which doesn’t roll off the tongue easily. (You can use the alternative Latinates ...

A retired Japanese teacher of history has returned an original copy of Korea’s Declaration of Independence to the Independence Hall of Korea in Cheonan, Chungcheongnam-do Province, a document that his ...

The stamp honors the Irish connection to the historic Declaration of Independence document ...