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

Part 2: Writer and activist Mark Charles lays out the anti-Native American sentiments within it, the doctrines and ...

On July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, proclaiming U.S. independence from Britain ...

July Fourth is a reminder that the most patriotic act is not blind ceremony. Instead, it’s the resolve to resist tyranny.

On June 19, 1865, Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger declared at Galveston, Texas, that "all slaves are free" by virtue of Lincoln's edict dated Jan. 1, 1863. It took more than two years to make the promise of ...

“White Southerners like Jefferson and Washington might never have declared independence from Britain had it not been for the activism of Black Virginians, and that’s true on the Southern-wide ...

Five years ago, on July 4, 2020, the country was in the midst of waves of rioting. The proximate cause, the match that lit the fire, was the death of a black man, a violent ex-convict, on May 25, with ...

Tampa Riverwalk July Fourth Boat Parade: The Friends of the Riverwalk, the privately funded nonprofit that has been the ...

Freetown’s Fireworks Festival and 4th of July Parade begins on Wednesday night at 6 p.m., with fun and food, followed by ...

It is shaping up to be a complicated Independence Day for the Episcopal Church. We were once the church of the Founding ...