After years of escalating tension between his majesty George III’s government and American colonial leaders, a Revolutionary War had begun in April 1775. More provocations and tension followed. By the ...

An expansion project is underway at a North Country landmark that dates back to our nation's founding. Our Alek LaShomb ...

The Times contends in their 1619 Project that the true founding of our nation is not 1776, but when the first slave arrived ...

The United States’ founders firmly rejected King George III and the entire idea of monarchy 249 years ago, on July 4, 1776.

News of the Declaration of Independence reached Great Britain in August 1776 and ignited a media frenzy, according to the Jack Miller Center, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit dedicated to teaching about ...

At least 500 demonstrators lined the streets outside the federal courthouse in Eugene on July 4 for a "No Kings since 1776" ...

It's been 249 years since the Declaration of Independence was passed by the Continental Congress in 1776, which the holiday ...

Can’t quite guess this one on your own? Don’t stress, here’s the answer to “What the US declared in 1776” in Cookie Jam.

As celebrations began on the East Coast for the first Fourth of July, a distant Colorado was untouched by British colonials. What did Colorado look like?

A new analysis piece published on the EIA website recently has outlined how U.S. energy use has changed since the Declaration ...

Adams, Jefferson and other Founding Fathers enjoyed wild game and seasonal produce in Philadelphia's taverns during the ...

Read the Declaration of Independence, the historic document drafted by Thomas Jefferson and signed by 56 delegates.