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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

George Washington’s copy of the Bill of Rights (with 12 amendments instead of 10); Thomas Jefferson’s annotated version of the Declaration of Independence; a Gutenberg Bible; an Andy Warhol ...

After watching their teacher meticulously draw the alphabet in cursive on a whiteboard, students in Patricia Durelli’s fourth-grade class pulled out their pencils to practice writing the letters in ...

A similar version is pending in the state Assembly ... keepsake letters and historic documents such as the Declaration of Independence. It also helps students better retain information when ...

As of April 6, the website has been restored to the earlier version. One immediate difference ... liberty and freedom expressed in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution to the ...