Current and former employees have expressed shock that the museum hosted the event—which marks a day associated with the mass ...

Others celebrate similarly to the United States, on the day the country either declared or formally gained independence from the United Kingdom. Here's when and how several former British colonies ...

It marks the day the British North America Act came into effect ... ‘none of the traditional associations of the Declaration of Independence, and is, to most people, only a piece of very dry ...

New research by a leading historian shows a surprising historical perspective on being British.

The Declaration of Independence, the most consequential and perhaps most heroic challenge to authority in human annals, reached the ear of King George III in London on this day in history ...

America will turn 248 years old this Independence Day, with all the fanfare you would ... the colonists in America were thereby free from British rule, even though the Revolutionary War was ...

As dissatisfaction grew, British troops were sent in to quell ... One year later, on July 4, 1777, Philadelphia marked Independence Day by adjourning Congress and celebrating with bonfires ...