In 1789, during its very first session, Congress passed the Records and Seals Act: “An Act to provide for the safe keeping of the Acts, Records, and Seal of the United States.” ...

Legislators, students, historical society members, reenactors of Founding Fathers, and more gathered March 2 in the Capitol to read the Declaration of Independence, interpret it for today, and ...

America’s 250th anniversary arrives at a time of deep political divisions and, in some quarters, heightened anxiety over whether representative government in the world’s oldest democracy can be ...

The Declaration of Independence was approved on July 4, 1776, dissolving political ties with Great Britain. The Declaration outlines the philosophy that governments derive their power from the consent ...

The Latinate term for the upcoming 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence is “semiquincentennial,” which doesn’t roll off the tongue easily. (You can use the alternative Latinates ...

The stamp honors the Irish connection to the historic Declaration of Independence document ...

John Dunlap, the Tyrone native who was the printer of the first copies of the Declaration of Independence, is celebrated in a new An Post stamp.

WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s 250th anniversary arrives at a time of deep political divisions and, in some quarters, heightened anxiety over whether representative government in the world’s oldest ...