Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It was 241 years ago today that the Articles of Confederation, the first American constitution, was sent to the 13 states for ...

Editor’s note: Another in a series of occasional stories about York County in the American Revolution. A classroom of smart educators was before me, and I asked the teachers a question. When you think ...

An “extremely rare” first-edition copy of the US Constitution will go under the hammer in New York next month, with Sotheby’s auction house expecting bids up to $30 million. Produced ahead of the ...

On July 5, 1819, 44 representatives from the state’s 22 counties gathered in a cabinetmaker’s shop in Huntsville. Their task? To write Alabama’s first Constitution so that the state might be accepted ...