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 ...

Mentor Public Library is celebrating the United States of America’s 250th anniversary all throughout 2026 with programs about the nation’s history. The series launches with a lecture about the ...

On Independence Day, we present the Declaration of Independence. 2025 marks 249 years since the United States’ founding document was adopted by the delegates to the Second Continental Congress in ...

Thomas Jefferson writes the Declaration of Independence and proclaims all men are created equal. Thomas Jefferson is tasked with writing a first draft of what will become the Declaration of ...

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 ...

We all know this part: But we don’t really know as much about the rest of the Declaration, which is a list of 27 grievances that America had against King George III of Great Britain. Congress decided ...