Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As the United States celebrates 250 of independence, details of how that news first reached Britain are under the spotlight in ...

A new book by historian Emily Sneff records the journeys of the Declaration's first printed copies, tracking their reception in the Thirteen Colonies and overseas ...

Amesbury Middle School eighth-graders showed off their patriotic spirit Tuesday as they read and recorded an interpretation ...

Congress formally adopted the Declaration of Independence on the afternoon of July 4, 1776. What happened next? A little-known sequence of events tells the story. It speaks volumes about the ...

America celebrates the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, whose ideals resonated across the world, amid ...

But if Jefferson and his colleagues on the Committee of Five avoided specifying what a national government should look like, ...