"I hope this is like a cultural shift," said the sponsor behind HCR10, a resolution that celebrates the upcoming 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

The film depicts the historical events leading to the Declaration of Independence by the thirteen American colonies in 1776. It highlights the colonists' struggle for self-governance, their resistance ...

The Thomas T. Taber Museum of the Lycoming County Historical Society will host its first Coffee Hour of the 2025 season at 10 a.m., March 13, with a talk by Dr. Christopher Pearl, faculty member of ...

Over the course of many months, the Founding Fathers would work on the Declaration of Independence until it was officially signed on July 4, 1776, by some of the most influential figures in US ...

Visitors can also see the Easton Flag, which was displayed July 8, 1776, when the Declaration of Independence was read in Easton. Parsons-Taylor House, 60 S. Fourth St., Easton In 1757 ...

Nearly all of the remaining major 250th anniversaries in Massachusetts will happen over the next 13 months, coinciding with the evacuation of British troops from Boston in March 1776.

Editor’s note: The year 2026 marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence ... and George Washington 44 on July 4, 1776. Why, then, do we remember them as elder statesmen?

Franklin, of course, would later be among the men who'd draft and sign the Declaration of Independence. He relinquished the role of postmaster general in 1776 to his son-in-law, Richard Bache.

DeSantis has set up a Semiquincentennial Advisory Commission to develop plans to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. A series of ...

Thomas Jefferson and friends penned the grievance, “quartering large bodies of troops among us,” and other grievances in the Declaration of Independence (1776). Military mayhem achieved ...

We celebrate freedom. But independence? The Declaration of Independence, approved by Congress on July 4, 1776, stated the case for breaking the bond between the colonies and Great Britain.