Editor’s note: Jim McClure will read the Declaration of Independence at 10 a.m. July 4 at First Presbyterian Church, 225 E. Market St., York. This is part of the annual Daughters of the American ...

Two hundred and forty-nine years ago, 56 men met in the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia to commit treason against the most powerful empire on Earth. Representing 13 colonies of that empire, ...

You might imagine the Declaration of Independence as a piece of parchment under glass, but in 1776, it was breaking news.

John Hancock will forever be known as the first of 56 delegates to sign the Declaration of Independence, but Dr. Matthew ...