At Monticello, we talked to Ken Burns, who was giving a preview of his upcoming PBS documentary on the American Revolution.

If you’re looking for the answer to “Author of Declaration of Independence” in Cookie Jam, don’t worry – we’ve got you ...

Thomas Jefferson’s first version of the Declaration of Independence told the truth about America that we would all be well served to remember and exalt this Fourth of July. He wrote, “We hold these ...

Poplar Forest's main event was a reenactor playing America's third president and a Virginia native, Thomas Jefferson.

Though John Adams was old and ill when he died, the curious timing of his demise sparked countless unusual theories.

In late June and early July 1776, the Second Continental Congress framed, debated, and adopted the Declaration of Independence.

John McCaa recalls a moment in his early career when he could not report on a political assassination in Spain. In our own ...

News of the Declaration of Independence reached Great Britain in August 1776 and ignited a media frenzy, according to the Jack Miller Center, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit dedicated to teaching about ...

It's crucial today to acknowledge that for 249 years thousands of Americans have fought to protect the ideas of the American ...

In 1776, 56 small town, seemingly ordinary men made a declaration of independence sparking world defining changes. A brand ...

PINE BELT, Miss. (WDAM) - On this day, July 4, 249 years ago, the Declaration of Independence was adopted by this country’s ...

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