For a quarter century, Jane Calvert has been on a mission shared by few scholars of the Revolutionary War era. She has ...

July 4th wasn’t the day Continental Congress members decided to declare independence; they did that on July 2, 1776. It ...

Then why don’t we celebrate Independence Day on July 2nd? Well, the 4th of July is when the Declaration of Independence was ...

You might imagine the Declaration of Independence as a piece of parchment under glass, but in 1776, it was breaking news.

On June 26, 1776, John Adams warned of disaster in Canada as Congress strengthened the Continental Army and moved one step ...

As the United States approaches its 250th anniversary, a BYU professor is bringing the nation's first printed Declaration of ...

History tells us that it was a hot, steamy day in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 4, 1776.

A crowd gathered along the waterfront in New York City in the summer of 1776. The scene they witnessed was terrifying. The largest expeditionary force in British history sailed into the American ...

Connecticut’s early commitment to the patriot cause was indispensable to the Revolution’s success.  Leadership and commitment ...