On July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress officially adopted the Declaration of Independence, in which the colonies ...

The Iran-Israel conflict did not begin with uranium. Its roots run deep through colonial partitions, imperial betrayals and shifting alliances that have scarred the region for generations ...

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 ...

Wear your patriotism on your sleeve with these apparel pieces designed for veterans and patriots. Each item is a symbol of ...

New York's Statue of Liberty is well known as a symbol of refuge for immigrants, but the statue's original design stood for ...

July 4, 1776 wasn't when the Declaration was signed, despite what the ending of "1776" would have you believe.

Americans have been celebrating July 4th as the country’s Independence Day since the anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776.

Mother Emanuel AME church made an ecumenical gesture for the commemoration of a racist shooting that killed nine of its Black ...

Library houses replica Declarations of Independence, while local town hall is modeled on a colonial predecessor ...

Here’s a look at the history of the conflict. In August 1947, Britain granted India its independence after a century of direct colonial rule, preceded by another century of control under the ...

They called it the Bethesda Declaration, for the location of the NIH. “We hope you will welcome this dissent, which we modeled after your Great Barrington Declaration,” the staffers wrote.