The Civil War ended in 1865, but for Minnesota and the one-time rebel state of Virginia, the battle continues over a prized ...

Gingerly exploring an overgrown gulch about 20 minutes west of Pearl Harbor, the serenity punctuated only by the chatter of ...

On a hot, steamy day in Philadelphia, a group of delegates to the Continental Congress gathered to celebrate the final ...

The text of the Declaration of Independence in full is a reminder of the nation’s founding ideals of democracy ...

The Declaration of Independence, adopted on July 4, 1776, was a game-changer for the 13 American colonies. This bold move cut ...

The Declaration of Independence is the pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia, ...

Two of the Declaration’s signers died 50 years to the day (July 4, 1826) after the document was adopted. Both were presidents -- Thomas Jefferson and John Adams. They died within hours of each other.

In 1978, archivist E.M. Sanchez-Saavedra, pursuing research for a compilation of Virginia’s Revolutionary military units, ...

The tyrant, of course, was King George III, the target of the Declaration of Independence. We take it for granted now, but ...

He concluded, he later wrote, that the troops were “ exceeding dirty & nasty people ” led by indifferent officers with an “ ...