Twenty community members solemnly, and with much emotion, read the document which was first read publicly on July 1, ...

CENTER CITY -- America's Birthday was celebrated this past Thursday, but the date July 8th also holds a significant moment in time. The First Public reading of the Declaration of Independence was July ...

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 ...

In June of 1776, the Continental Congress formed a five-person committee consisting of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman and Robert R. Livingston to draft a declaration of ...

THAT’S A TRADITION AS WELL. WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF-EVIDENT, THAT ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL, THAT THEY ARE ENDOWED BY THEIR CREATOR WITH CERTAIN UNALIENABLE RIGHTS. YOU GOT IT RIGHT. IF YOU ...

The Latinate term for the upcoming 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence is “semiquincentennial,” which doesn’t roll off the tongue easily. (You can use the alternative Latinates ...

It is an Independence Day tradition that drew crowds to the Newton Green — one of Sussex County’s most visible locations — for more than a decade, but no longer. A reading of the Declaration of ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - More than 500 community members gathered in downtown Charleston Thursday morning for the 13th annual reading of the Declaration of Independence. Members of the Washington ...

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PLATTSBURGH — The Valcour Battle Chapter Sons of the American Revolution will present a reenactment of the public reading of the Declaration of Independence at 10 a.m. July 5 in Veterans Park on the U ...