Historians have put together an app that guides users to significant sites around the city, just in time for the 250th anniversary of the United States’ founding.

The Declaration of Independence is a revolutionary document that transformed governance from monarchy to democracy and ...

D.C.’s unique status may come down to a secret meeting between Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison.

Lafayette has come to Lafayette. Marquis de Lafayette, the honorary patriot who fought in the Revolutionary War, makes his appearance in small cutouts for a city-wide scavenger hunt.

Nonetheless, Brotemarkle and the historical society understand that "Florida is excluded a lot when talking about the American Revolution" owing to the focus on the 13 original colonies, where ...

July 4, also known as Independence Day, marks the day the Declaration of Independence was adopted and the 13 North American colonies officially separated from Great Britain.

A year before declaring independence, colonists offered 'Olive Branch' petition to King George III ...

But while the Declaration of Independence ends with the 13 colonies “absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown,” the authors in 1775 assured a nervous public “that we mean not to ...

Some exhibits and events are already underway in Providence and Newport to mark the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

Amid the nation's upcoming semiquincentennial celebrations comes a new, 12-hour, six-part series from America's master of ...