Next year, 2026, marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of the United States. The History Channel’s new docuseries “Thomas Jefferson” looks at one of America’s Founding Fathers and author of the ...

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

In January 1777, Baltimore printer Mary Katharine Goddard published the first copies of the Declaration of Independence that included the signers’ names. By then, the document was already old news.

A few words in the Declaration of Independence, describing Indigenous people as "savages," did lasting damage, professor ...

MADISON, Wis. — A local non-profit organization is launching an ambitious project to document Madison's history as the nation prepares to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of ...