WASHINGTON, D.C. - As we celebrate Independence Day, the National Archives in Washington, D.C. is letting the public view ...

We fight, get beat, rise and fight again.” ...

It's worth revering not just the document itself, but the men of consequence who made American independence a reality.

The contours of this legacy are still contested, as they and so much else were at the time of their drafting. Yet, when Americans allow their disagreements to get too heated — or, worse, when they are ...

The Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776 to announced ...

The First Congregational Church bells, designed by Colonel John Trumbull, painter of the American Revolution, will ring 13 times for the 13 American colonies at 1 p.m. to start the ceremony.

The thirteen colonies were the original British colonies that became the United States of America. They were established between 1607 and 1733 and were located along the Atlantic coast from Maine to ...

The American empire has existed since July 4, 1776 when it was declared as colonial elites revolted against the British in a quest to expand their territory across the mainland of North America.

All other colonies that wished to join the nascent nation would have to get approval from 9 of the U.S.’s 13 states. Canada, of course, never took the U.S. up on its offer.

But out of it all survived the folk of New England, the folk that are the backbone of the American Nation. The story of these thirteen colonies is a good tonic and a good corrective.

American soldiers often lacked shoes, blankets, coats, and adequate food; roughly 36,000 are thought to have perished in the war, and more died as a result of disease than in battle.

A Trump administration official said that an American missionary was released Sunday after 13 months of detainment in Tunisia, Reuters reported. Adam Boehler, a U.S. special envoy, said that Robert… ...