With Independence Day looming, the family knew something patriotic would be appropriate. “Right off the bat I said, we’re definitely doing the Declaration of Independence.

As the 19th-century Hungarian nationalist, Lajos Kossuth, put it, the U.S. Declaration of Independence was nothing less than "the noblest, happiest page in mankind's history." ...

In the broadcast reading of the Declaration of Independence we inadvertently dropped two words: establish commerce. We muse about what would be different if those words had not been in the document.

Every Fourth of July, thousands of Americans stand in long lines to see the Declaration of Independence. They’re curious to read for themselves the powerful words that have been repeated again ...

What are the first words in Declaration of Independence? Prior to this, this region was made up of 13 British colonies along the eastern coast of North America, which is now known as the US.