Three days before the Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4, 1776, Thomas Jefferson purchased a thermometer from a ...

On July 4, 1776, the 13 colonies claimed their independence ... the original copy of the Declaration is housed in the National Archives in Washington, D.C., and the fourth of July has been ...

George Taylor, one of the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence, spent most of his life in the Lehigh Valley ...

We are proud to offer the Goodspeed's-Sang-Streeter copy of the July 1776 Essex broadside printing of the Declaration of Independence. “An expression of the American mind," according to Thomas ...

It is right and just for America to make a big deal about our 250th birthday. On July 4th, 1776 by the unanimous voice vote ...

49.5 x 39.2 cm. (19.5 x 15.4 in.) ...

When we fire up the grill on the Fourth of July, few of us take time to consider what “independence” is all about. We live in the land of liberty. We celebrate freedom. But independence? The ...

Nearly all of the remaining major 250th anniversaries in Massachusetts will happen over the next 13 months, coinciding with the evacuation of British troops from Boston in March 1776.

The Lewis Kingman Chapter of the National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR) is visiting some Mohave ...