Each summer, invited bands, drill teams, military and specialty units and decorated floats march through the nation’s capital ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: On this, the anniversary of our nation’s independence, we think it is important to publish these words that our forefathers inked 249 years ago in declaration of our fledgling nation’s ...

As the nation prepares to mark the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the Valley Forge Park Alliance, the nonprofit partner of Valley Forge National Historical Park, ...

Many years ago a reader, Wallace Hooper, wrote to the Chronicle publisher with this request: “To celebrate this and every July Fourth, print the entire text of the Declaration of Independence.” In ...

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 ...