On November 29, 1947, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted a Resolution for the establishment of an independent ...

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

(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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Declaration of Independence did more than assert the Colonies' independence from Britain. iStock/Getty Images Plus A crowd ...

A volunteer sorting old Royal Navy papers at The National Archives in London has uncovered a rare 1776 printing of the US ...

July 4 is a red- white- and blue-letter day to recall the Declaration of Independence. Who better to give insights about it than Archbishop Fulton Sheen? As perceptive and prophetic as ever of what ...

Robert P. George writes that the preservation and protection of liberty is at the core of our nation’s promise, but how we understand the normative content of liberty matters greatly. One of the most ...

The celebration for America’s 250 years since the Declaration of Independence has been wonderful. The designs of posters, ...

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 ...

We love a nice round number—and 250 years since the U.S. War of Independence began is too significant to pass up. Somehow in fifty years of living on the East Coast, I haven’t toured Philadelphia’s ...

The parchment -- auctioned off Thursday in Philadelphia -- was actually just one of only a few dozen known remaining copies of the Declaration printed by master engraver William Stone.