Vermont officially joined the United States on March 4, 1791, nearly 15 years after the Declaration of Independence, but the path to statehood was complicated.

Congress formally adopted the Declaration of Independence on the afternoon of July 4, 1776. What happened next? A little-known sequence of events tells the story. It speaks volumes about the ...

Leaders of South Carolina’s three branches of government commemorated a non-partisan event — the 250th year of the ...

The documents, signed by George Washington, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin and other American revolutionary leaders, will be ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them ...

America’s 250th anniversary arrives at a time of deep political divisions and, in some quarters, heightened anxiety over whether representative government in the world’s oldest democracy can be ...

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them ...

Almost two centuries ago, dozens of Texans gathered in the town of Washington-on-the-Brazos to sign Texas’ Declaration of ...

The National Archives is bringing documents that helped shape the United States directly to Houston.

For the first time in United States history, several of the country’s founding documents will travel the skies to visit multiple cities on their own jet in honor of the nation’s founding.

Editor's note: In honor of Independence Day — this year, we mark 249 years since the United States parted with Great Britain — we present the nation's founding document, the Declaration of ...