As the United States marks the 250th anniversary of its independence on July 4, 2026, a little-known organisation called America250 is leading the nationwide celebrations through concerts, public ...

To celebrate the Declaration of Independence, groups plan to gather in all sorts of places to actually read it.

Known as a "Dunlap Broadside," it is one of just 26 remaining versions of the first copies made in Philadelphia immediately after the signing of the declaration on July 4, 1776. The Maine Historical ...

The founding document has been fought over since it was written. Today, we can let Trump claim it, or we can take up its ...

But as I recently learned when I built a website to help families celebrate American holidays, every single one of our red-letter days has been a site of contested meaning. That conflict is a feature, ...

July 4th is the 250th anniversary, or semiquincentennial, of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the foundational document for western democracy.

"Connecticut's Revolution" is the largest exhibition the Museum of Connecticut History has installed in decades.

A volunteer archivist stumbled upon a "vanishingly rare" copy of the Declaration of Independence, the only one of its kind ...

Americans celebrate the Fourth of July because it marks the birth of the United States. Historians rightly remember it for something even more consequential. Two hundred and fifty years ago, a ...

Michael Scurr has been volunteering at Britain’s National Archives for the last 11 years, spending his Thursday mornings ...

A volunteer archivist who stumbled upon a “vanishingly rare” copy of the US Declaration of Independence, the only one of its ...