More than two centuries after July 4, 1776, the men who signed the Declaration of Independence — especially John Hancock — are famous. But the woman whose name also appears on ...

Leaders of South Carolina’s three branches of government commemorated a non-partisan event — the 250th year of the ...

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: 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 ...

The borough of Catasauqua hosted a special reading of the Declaration of Independence Thursday. This is the 10th year the event has been held at the George Taylor House. George Taylor was one of the ...

The state’s highest leaders gathered to honor the Declaration of Independence and talk about it’s significance to the state.

The Fort Necessity Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR) asked Fayette County students from grades 5 through 8 to imagine what it would be like to sit down with one of ...

"This monograph upon the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence was read before the Scotch-Irish Society of America at its meeting in Lexington, Virginia, on June 21, 1895, and is printed in vol. VII ...

The primary obligation of any government, the Declaration of Independence tells us in its famous second paragraph, is the “safety and happiness” of its citizens. The necessity of securing safety is ...

Independence Day, also known as the Fourth of July, marks the birth of the United States as an independent nation. On this day in 1776, the Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of ...