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 ...

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.

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 ...

When our plane from Casablanca touched down at Washington’s Dulles Airport, I was excited to visit many of the symbols of ... including the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths ...

As Balochistan’s independence ... With the recent declaration of Balochistan as an “independent nation” by separatist factions, this site has become more than a place of worship because it now stands ...

Even today, the Declaration continues to be a symbol of the country’s ongoing journey toward its founding ideals. The ratification of the Declaration of Independence was a defining moment in American ...

On July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence ... Thomson shaped enduring national symbols. He finalised the design of the Great Seal of the United ...

He also hung a framed copy of the Declaration of Independence in the Oval Office ... graphics were added to explain that the symbols were perceived by the White House as code for "MS-13," the ...