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

The nation’s 250th anniversary is a chance to relearn our founding principles.

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

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

Americans will celebrate the nation's birthday on the Fourth of July, but Founding Father John Adams believed that July 2 was ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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