History professor connects colonial complaints to modern issues during 250th anniversary of American independence ...

PHILADELPHIA (WCSC) - The First Continental Congress adopted a pivotal document that expressed the American colonies’ growing dissatisfaction with British statutes imposed on colonists. The ...

Virginia Allen is a senior news producer for The Daily Signal and host of "The Daily Signal Podcast" and "Problematic Women." Send an email to Virginia. Taxation wasn’t the only reason that America’s ...

PITTSFIELD THE FOURTH of July is a holiday to celebrate the Declaration of Independence. Most Americans pay tribute to the opening part of that document, which proclaims that "all men are created ...

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 ...

It was a Glorious Fourth with a parade and a cookout and fireworks, and I was 7 and the sky sparkled, shimmered and shined all around; the booming rumble of the aerial bombs thudded in our tummies; a ...

On July 2, 1776, the Second Continental Congress voted unanimously to declare independence from Great Britain. Approximately 20 percent of the members of Congress were opposed to separation, but some ...

Thank you for publishing our Declaration of Independence. Of the bulleted grievances, and in my opinion of current events, they foreshadow the current “…Prince whose character is thus marked by every ...

The main objectives of the Declaration of Independence were to announce a cause of action and formally justify the Continental Congress’s July 2, 1776, decision to separate from Great Britain. The ...