On July 4, 1776, the 13 colonies claimed their independence from England, an event which eventually led to the formation of the United States. Each year on the fourth of July, also known as ...

On July 4, 1776, in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, the local situation was significantly different from the historic events occurring in the American colonies. Honolulu, part of the island of Oʻahu ...

The book in question was Locke’s Two Treatises of Government (1689), the political tract that demolished the case for absolute monarchy and helped to set colonial hearts on fire. Indeed ...

Guelzo: Well, it was deeper, and wider too, because in May of 1776, a second Continental Congress resolved to authorize the formation of new governments in the colonies that would favor independence.

Although Jefferson's description of the slave trade was as much an indictment of the colonies as of Britain ... to the Continental Congress on July 1, 1776, both northern and southern slaveholding ...

It announced that the colonies held rights of life ... The conflict continued, and on June 11, 1776, Congress resolved to form a committee to draft a declaration of independence.

Granville Sentinel columnist Jeff Gill shares his thoughts on the Declaration of Independence and the Founding Fathers' intentions behind their words.

On July 2, 1776, the Second Continental Congress voted ... The Declaration was necessary for concrete as well as symbolic reasons: the colonies needed foreign aid to keep fighting, but to obtain ...