On what would have been the 100th anniversary of this July 4th tradition, The New York Times reportedly forgot to print the Declaration of Independence in its newspaper this year.

Politico reported on Wednesday that The New York Times "forgot" to publish the Declaration of Independence in its July 4 print edition for the first time in 100 years.

On June 19, 1865, Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger declared at Galveston, Texas, that "all slaves are free" by virtue of Lincoln's edict dated Jan. 1, 1863. It took more than two years to make the promise of ...

On July 2, 1776, the Second Continental Congress voted unanimously to declare independence from Great Britain. Approximately 20 percent of the members of Congress were opposed to separation, but ...

To revisit the Declaration of Independence is “to revisit everything that is good and right and hopeful about this country as equally as it is to revisit everything that we got wrong.” ...

Mecklenburg, North Carolina, is celebrating its own Declaration of Independence claiming it was signed a year before all the American colonies split from British rule.

It was three weeks after July 4, 1776 that word of the Declaration of Independence was proclaimed in Williamsburg, Virginia’s colonial capitol; the two signers associated with the city were not ...