When Is America’s Birthday? The Fourth of July holiday in America marks the day in 1776 when the Second Continental Congress unanimously adopted the Declaration of Independence.

Nearly 250 years after the Declaration of Independence was first written and distributed across Colonial America, several celebrations across the Capital Region will include a public reading of ...

Writing from Paris, I ponder the notion that, next year, America celebrates its first quarter of a millennium as a republic ...

The rare document will be on view for just three days at the New York Public Library next year in celebration of America's ...

Handwritten by Thomas Jefferson, the copy of the Declaration of Independence offers a glimpse into America's origins, 250 ...

The bicounty panel will plan "an observance and commemoration" of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, and the eight years of the American Revolutionary War that ended with the ...

By July 1776, America’s Founding Fathers had carefully prepared the Declaration of Independence and affixed their signatures to the historic document.

Abigail Adams proved a peerless patriot in the American Revolution with "a spirit that will not be conquered" while championing rights for women in the new nation.

What's so significant about July 4? Here's a quick look at how taxes and tea contributed to a break from Great Britain, resulting in American Independence Day.