Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. John Dunlap printed the first broadside copies of the Declaration of Independence after Congress approved the final text on July 4 ...

It was Wednesday, July 3, 1776. Congress had voted for independence the day before. But Congress still had not finished the Declaration. Delegates spent the day working through Thomas Jefferson's ...

Fireworks, parades and backyard barbecues have become synonymous with July 4 in the United States. Yet one of the biggest assumptions about America's Independence Day is historically inaccurate.

Fairfax County was a hotbed of revolutionary zeal in the 1700s. July 4th will mark 250 years after the Continental Congress voted to ratify the nation’s Declaration of Independence in 1776, but three ...