Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. RD.com, Getty Images (3) This summer marks the 250th birthday of the United States, and we'll soon be waving flags, watching ...

Fifty-six men risked their lives to sign the Declaration of Independence – not on July 4 but on 1776. The only two men to sign the Declaration on July 4 were ...

NEW YORK — For a quarter century, Jane Calvert has been on a mission shared by few scholars of the Revolutionary War era. She has championed a founder mostly remembered, when remembered at all, as the ...

When the signers of the Declaration of Independence pledged to each other their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor on the morning of July 4, 1776, they were making a fundamental compact ...

A fifty-foot copy of the Declaration of Independence drew thousands of signatures across the Fourth of July weekend and exceeded organizers’ expectations for connecting the community, according to ...

If only Americans valued learning history's lessons as much as marking its dates. We just commemorated Independence Day with massive festivities focused on July 4, the day of formal adoption of the ...

Collecting is a widespread diversion. People save milk bottles and Liberty dimes, first-edition crime novels and Pokeman cards, souvenir thimbles and Niagara Falls banners, you name it. The vastness ...

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 ...

This summer marks the 250th birthday of the United States, and we’ll soon be waving flags, watching parades and setting off fireworks. But how much do you actually know about the document that brought ...

For a quarter century, Jane Calvert has been on a mission shared by few scholars of the Revolutionary War era. She has championed a founder mostly remembered, when remembered at all, as the man who ...