On July 2, 1776, the Second Continental Congress voted unanimously to declare independence from Great Britain.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Declaration of Independence did more than assert the Colonies' independence from Britain. iStock/Getty Images Plus A crowd ...

(The Conversation) — On the Fourth of July 1776, the congressional delegates in Philadelphia adopted the Declaration of Independence, then ordered that it be widely “proclaimed.” Couriers carried the ...

Corey and Chumlee look at a rare authentic copy of the Declaration of Independence made by engraver and printer William J. Stone in this clip from "Declaration of Dopeness." ...

I can’t think of a more fitting celebration of this Fourth of July than a reading of Walter Isaacson’s thin volume “The Greatest Sentence Ever Written.” Isaacson is an influential public scholar and ...

The Declaration of Independence, approved on July 4, 1776, dissolved the American colonies' political ties with Great Britain. It listed grievances against King George III, including quartering troops ...

The parchment -- auctioned off Thursday in Philadelphia -- was actually just one of only a few dozen known remaining copies of the Declaration printed by master engraver William Stone.

With the United States on the cusp of celebrating 250 years independence, the first American pope was honored Friday by the ...

July 4 is a red- white- and blue-letter day to recall the Declaration of Independence. Who better to give insights about it than Archbishop Fulton Sheen? As perceptive and prophetic as ever of what ...

A $4 Pennsylvania flea-market find hid a rare Declaration of Independence copy that later sold for $8.14 million.