The Declaration of Independence, the most consequential and perhaps most heroic challenge to authority in human annals, reached the ear of King George III in London on this day in history, August 10, ...

Created 1776, The United States Declaration of Independence is the pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 4, 1776. The Declaration ...

One of the few remaining original copies of the Declaration of Independence will be on display today at the Arizona History Museum at 949 E. Second St. from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. The event is free and open ...

What Did Conservatives Conserve Before 1955? The Eternal Return of James Burnham It is common enough to say that the Declaration of Independence made America. Indeed, that is why we celebrate its ...

Created 1776, The United States Declaration of Independence is the pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 4, 1776. The Declaration ...

On July 4, 1776, two days after the Continental Congress voted to declare the United State's Independence, the Declaration of Independence was ratified. It took nearly a month for most of the ...

In 1776, 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence. Some of them went on to become president. One of their names is basically synonymous with “signature” today. Others have museums, monuments, and ...

Editor's note: The Gazette-Times traditionally reprints the text of the Declaration of Independence on July 4. But we don't have an editorial page on Saturday, so here it is, a day early, for reading ...

In 1776, Thomas Paine set a revolutionary tone rejecting the King: “But where, say some, is the King of America? … as far as we approve of monarchy… in America the law is king.” The American ...

A Fairfax County collector who paid nearly half a million dollars for a 1776 copy of the Declaration of Independence received a welcome declaration of ownership yesterday when Virginia's Supreme Court ...

Thomas Jefferson, pregnant? Lawyer, architect, statesman, violin-player. The third president of the United States was a man of multitudes, but history does not record giving birth as being among his ...

1776: The Declaration of Independence is signed. It will take 127 years before someone gets around to saying, Hey, maybe we should preserve this thing. The Declaration of Independence can be fairly ...