Independence Day, also referred to as the Fourth of July, commemorates the anniversary of the day when the Second Continental Congress formally adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.

On July 4, 1776, the United States declared its independence from Great Britain. The nation's founding document is fittingly named the Declaration of Independence, and it outlines how the then-13 ...

In January 1777, Baltimore printer Mary Katharine Goddard published the first copies of the Declaration of Independence that included the signers’ names. By then, the document was already old news.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - South Carolina State Fair visitors got the chance to sign a replica of the Declaration of Independence, nearly 250 years after the original document was signed in Philadelphia.