Everyone knows the famous names at the bottom of the Declaration of Independence, from John Hancock’s famous oversized signature to author Thomas Jefferson and John Adams.

John McCaa recalls a moment in his early career when he could not report on a political assassination in Spain. In our own ...

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In 1865, Congress passes the 13th Amendment. The war ends, Lincoln is assassinated and the states ratify the amendment later ...

The Declaration of Independence is full of promise and a few mysteries. A rare copy of it ended up at The Henry Ford Museum ...

News of the Declaration of Independence reached Great Britain in August 1776 and ignited a media frenzy, according to the Jack Miller Center, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit dedicated to teaching about ...

At Monticello, we talked to Ken Burns, who was giving a preview of his upcoming PBS documentary on the American Revolution.

This Friday, as is customary every year, Americans will come together to celebrate July 4th, one of the nation's most ...

In late June and early July 1776, the Second Continental Congress framed, debated, and adopted the Declaration of Independence.

It's crucial today to acknowledge that for 249 years thousands of Americans have fought to protect the ideas of the American ...

El 4 de julio es la esencia de lo estadounidense: desfiles, parrilladas, cerveza fría y, por supuesto, fuegos artificiales.

Thomas Jefferson’s first version of the Declaration of Independence told the truth about America that we would all be well served to remember and exalt this Fourth of July. He wrote, “We hold these ...