This Fourth of July, the Capital Region will be honoring the past with public readings of the Declaration of Independence.

Just two years after it was bought for $4, it was sold at Sotheby’s for $2,420,000, establishing a record at the time for any ...

A group of local attorneys and other community members gathered at the Hale County Courthouse gazebo on Thursday to read the ...

It's worth revering not just the document itself, but the men of consequence who made American independence a reality.

In honor of our nation’s 249th birthday, we present this excerpt from the Declaration of Independence, issued on July 4, 1776: “The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen United States... Premium ...

So Parliament took a new approach. It passed laws—the Sugar Act and Stamp Act— to raise revenue directly, bypassing the ...

The following text is a transcription of the first 10 amendments to the Constitution in their original form. These amendments ...

A Summer Reading List for America’s 250th Anniversary. On July 4, 2026, America will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the ...

Every year, July 4th is celebrated as Independence Day in the United States, marking the adoption of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. It’s a day of pride, freedom, and patriotism. Delivering a ...

And Douglass did so, it is worth noting, by championing the same founding principles that he celebrated in his Fourth of July ...

Over 200 years after Frederick Douglass questioned “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” in an act of resistance to Independence Day, Black Americans are still grappling with how to celebrate ...

We may criticize or appeal court rulings we don't agree with. But we cannot defy the rulings of duly constituted courts and ...