On July 2, 1776, the Second Continental Congress voted unanimously to declare independence from Great Britain.

I can’t think of a more fitting celebration of this Fourth of July than a reading of Walter Isaacson’s thin volume “The Greatest Sentence Ever Written.” Isaacson is an influential public scholar and ...

Historian Dr. Michael Auslin discusses his new book, "National Treasure: How the Declaration of Independence Made America," tracing the document's 250-year history.

See more of our coverage in your search results. Make New York Post a Preferred Source The summer of 1776 was a dark time for the Americans. When the signers of the Declaration of Independence pledged ...

The Declaration of Independence, approved on July 4, 1776, dissolved the American colonies' political ties with Great Britain. It listed grievances against King George III, including quartering troops ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By July 1776, Great Britain and its 13 colonies on North America's eastern seaboard had been at war for more than a year; they ...

On Independence Day, we present the Declaration of Independence. 2025 marks 249 years since the United States’ founding document was adopted by the delegates to the Second Continental Congress in ...

A new three-part documentary series produced by Minnesota PBS and distributed by American Public Television, Pursuit of Happiness, explores one of America's founding ideals as stated in the Declaratio ...

Most people don’t look at the Declaration of Independence and think, “What if we took words away?” But UCLA scholar Johanna Drucker did just that, and the result is a striking new way to read one of ...

(The Conversation) — On the Fourth of July 1776, the congressional delegates in Philadelphia adopted the Declaration of Independence, then ordered that it be widely “proclaimed.” Couriers carried the ...