In the pantheon of New England-born patriots, no two men stood higher than Benjamin Franklin and John Adams. And in the New ...

A Northern Ireland council area is to explore its links to the American ‘Founding Fathers’ on the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

An earlier version of this story misstated reciprocal tariffs in Australia. President Donald Trump's "Liberation Day" unleashed widespread tariffs in a "declaration of economic independence," but ...

The Bostonian is best known for his perilous horseback journey 250 years ago. But scholars say his art helped fan the flames ...

In “We the People, Sing Our Song,” an art project/“talking comic book” created by Neil Kendricks that explores the concept of democracy through voting and civic participation, the hardest part was ...

The phrase “Give me liberty or give me death!” has survived the centuries like a line in a Shakespeare play. It’s been expressed by protesters from the 1989 Tiananmen Square uprising in China to those ...

It is not for nothing that among the accusations listed in the Declaration of Independence is the charge ... Northup — dramatized in the 2013 film version of his book, “12 Years a Slave ...

Nick Jonas and Adrienne Warren star in a muddy revival of Jason Robert Brown’s still-scathing musical.

The printed version of Henry’s galvanizing speech ... with certain inalienable rights,” an idea echoed in the Declaration of Independence. In 1765, Henry won a seat in Virginia’s colonial ...

an arboretum and a zoo — reflect its version of national identity by the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in July 2026. The Smithsonian is not entirely funded ...

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