This Fourth of July, the Capital Region will be honoring the past with public readings of the Declaration of Independence.

The contours of this legacy are still contested, as they and so much else were at the time of their drafting. Yet, when Americans allow their disagreements to get too heated — or, worse, when they are ...

The Declaration of Independence.  A month late,r they began to sign it. Samuel Adams said at that signing on August 1, 1776: ...

For more years than I’m aware of, a group of my friends, many of whom are relatives, would gather along the northern shore of Lake Huron on the Fourth of July and recite the Declaration of ...

OpEd: The inalienable rights documented in the Declaration of Independence are under increasing attack from the Trump ...

Semiquincentennial” is a pretty big word favored by sesquipedalians (people who use big words). It’s a word most of us will ...

America the Beautiful” by Katharine Lee Bates is as much critique as celebration, writes documentary filmmaker. While Bates’ ...

That's not how Jefferson remembered the event. He simply recalled being asked by a committee of the Founding Fathers to take up his pen. "Possibly neither of their memories served, and possibly both ...

The Declaration of Indepenence, not to mention the Constitution that came 11 years later, did not come out of nothing. Over ...

WHEN, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected ...

The Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776 to announced ...

July 4th is a federal holiday, meaning most government offices will be closed, but what about grocery stores? What to know ...