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 ...

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 ...

Part I. Origins -- Night teaching -- Patrimony -- Loving democracy -- Animating the Declaration -- Part II. Who wrote the Declaration of Independence? -- The writer -- The politicos -- The Committee - ...

WEST CHESTER–A spirited reading of the Declaration of Independence took place Tuesday, at the Uptown! Knauer Performing Arts Center. Twenty community members solemnly, and with much emotion, read the ...

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 ...

Chris Leonard, left, and Carmel Patrick, right, at last year’s Fourth of July event in Schenectady. Leonard and Patrick were the driving forces behind organizing the ceremony in Schenectady. Nearly ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On this day 249 years ago, Isaiah Thomas, publisher of the Massachusetts Spy newspaper and a onetime Worcester postmaster, stood on a porch of the town's meetinghouse and recited the Declaration of ...