Editor's note: In honor of Independence Day — this year, we mark 249 years since the United States parted with Great Britain — we present the nation's founding document, the Declaration of ...

July 4 has, since the inception of the United States, been synonymous with the nation’s best ideals — freedom to worship as we please, freedom of the press, freedom to criticize our government — and ...

Presque Isle’s restored one-room schoolhouse hosted a fitting Fourth of July celebration: a reading of the Declaration of ...

Declaration of Independence. (Stock photo KLedge/Getty Images) Today is July 4, 2025. As a reminder of the nation’s foundational principles and ideals, we’re running the full text of the nation’s ...

We’re republishing the text of the Declaration of Independence in full today on America’s 249th birthday. In Congress, July 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, ...

By everything, he meant the birth of the United States. The Declaration, dated at the top in big letters, "July 4, 1776," is the reason we celebrate Independence Day.

As is our annual tradition, the editorial board presents the Declaration of Independence in lieu of an editorial to mark the nation’s 249th birthday.

On July 2nd, 1776, the Congress of the United States voted for independence from Great Britain. On July 4th, 1776, it officially adopted the American Theory of Government, which was publicly ...

July 4, 1776, is an important date in American history that is widely considered the birthday of the United States of America. But some people argue that Aug. 2 should actually be America's birthday, ...

This idea that we can progress beyond the Declaration of Independence, beyond 1776, is foolish because there’s no progress between the idea that all men are created equal.