The Board of Governors (BOG) that oversees the University of North Carolina’s sixteen constituent institutions has created a ...

The reception of Lafayette at Mount Vernon, home of Washington,’ painted by Herman Bencke around 1875. Bencke & Scott/Library of Congress by Matthew Smith America is nearing the 250th ...

The Sackets Harbor Battlefield State Historic Site has scheduled program on an uncommon topic leading up to its commemoration of the Declaration of Independence's 250th anniversary. Learn about life ...

Former President Joe Biden on Friday couldn’t quite finish reciting the most famous line in the Declaration of Independence.

It appears that we are so overwhelmed that way too many of us, by choice, confine ourselves to those sources of information ...

May 20 is "Meck Dec Day," marking the date in 1775 when the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence was said to have been announced — more than a year before the nation's official declaration on ...

because now he gets to be president during the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and the first FIFA World Cup to be hosted in the U.S. next year, and the 2028 Olympics in Los ...

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. Here's a controversy that ...

NICK DE LA CANAL, BYLINE: If you've never heard of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, here's historian Scott Syfert with a primer. He's sipping beer inside a brewery, where he just ...