On July 4, 1776, the United States declared its independence from Great Britain. The nation's founding document is fittingly named the Declaration of Independence, and it outlines how the then-13 ...

Americans have looked to the Declaration of Independence when they sought to remedy contemporary problems and create new ...

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. (WHTM) — A lot of stuff people think happened on the Fourth of July didn’t happen on the Fourth of July. The “national memory” (for want of a better term) of the Fourth of July is a ...

In 1962, President John F. Kennedy traveled to Philadelphia, where the Declaration of Independence was debated and signed, for a Fourth of July speech ...

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The Declaration of Independence is the pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 4, 1776. The Declaration explained why the 13 colonies at ...

In 1906, the University of Notre Dame, my alma mater, dedicated a new dormitory called Carroll Hall. Charles Carroll of Carrollton, its namesake, was the only Catholic who signed the Declaration of ...

ATLANTA — In an effort to show her patriotism following the 4th of July, Georgia U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene took to X, formerly known as Twitter, to share some fun “facts” about 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 ...

Controversial Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) faced backlash on social media for listing the wrong names of people who signed the Declaration of Independence. Greene made this mistake in an X ...

This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. Many founding fathers were unable to sign the Declaration ...