As America nears its 250th birthday, one of Augusta's oldest memorials still stands as an enduring tribute to three of the nation's Founding Fathers. But if you visit, you might feel like something's ...

In January 1777, Baltimore printer Mary Katharine Goddard published the first copies of the Declaration of Independence that included the signers’ names. By then, the document was already old news.

You might imagine the Declaration of Independence as a piece of parchment under glass, but in 1776, it was breaking news.

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Editor’s note: Jim McClure will read the Declaration of Independence at 10 a.m. July 4 at First Presbyterian Church, 225 E. Market St., York. This is part of the annual Daughters of the American ...

As the 250th anniversary of signing of the Declaration of Independence draws closer, a rededication of the gravesite of Thomas Heyward Jr. was held in Ridgeland, May 3, 2025. Heyward was one of South ...

Editor’s note: On Feb. 16, one of the University of Virginia’s rare and valuable copies of the Declaration of Independence, printed in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776, will go on display in the Rotunda ...

[This post is excerpted from the new book, National Treasure: How the Declaration of Independence Made America (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster).] That Abraham Lincoln, our most American of ...