Former President Joe Biden on Friday couldn’t quite finish reciting the most famous line in the Declaration of Independence.

May is Jewish American Heritage Month. And this year, it lands in a time of rising antisemitism, civic unrest, and surging ...

Many of the men who took part in the Congress left traces across the state that remain visible today. Witherspoon's home, ...

Every May 20, beneath the proverbial shadows of Charlotte’s modern glass and steel skyline, supporters gather to commemorate ...

Mecklenburg, North Carolina, is celebrating its own Declaration of Independence claiming it was signed a year before all the American colonies split from British rule.

The Declaration of Independence is the culmination of that ... After Adams and Benjamin Franklin both made minor edits to Jefferson’s text, it was ready to be presented to the Continental ...

A handwritten manuscript of the Declaration of Independence, worth an estimated ... to be the only state constitution that quotes the text of the declaration in its entirety.” ...

Hancock read the text to a large and boisterous crowd in Philadelphia. Their joyful response was the first celebration of American independence. On July 19, Congress ordered that the Declaration ...

Since the text is so short ... Harry with his battered copy of the Constitution and the American Declaration of Independence, Mordechai with his Bible open to the Prophets and staring at a ...

LEPORE: Douglass comes to realize the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution ... on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated ...