Having sizzling burgers during the day and watching a lit-up sky at night seem to be hallmarks of celebrating the Fourth of July. But if that’s all our students think of on Independence Day, they are ...

July 4 is the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. A group of 56 men met in Philadelphia in 1776 to approve the document, which declared that the United States was its own country.

Today we celebrate the anniversary of American independence. But we too often forget a crucial way in which the principles of the Declaration of Independence contrast with those of virtually all ...

This Fourth of July will mark the 239th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, the document that birthed the nation. You may know about John Hancock’s famously large ...

Huntington library. Editor’s note: Americans may think they know a lot about the Declaration of Independence, but many of those ideas are elitist and wrong, as historian Woody Holton explains.

This John Trumbull painting is often billed as “Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776,” so it’s no surprise that many people think it depicts the signing of the Declaration of ...