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

Thomas Jefferson deleted key passages in the Declaration of Independence that historian Holly Brewer says reveal as much as ...

As the nation prepares for its 250th anniversary of independence, Supreme Court Justice Neil M. Gorsuch wants Americans to understand just how much of an accomplishment that was. His new children’s ...

America is, as Gorsuch said, a nation based on the ideas of the Declaration of Independence, and these ideas have persuaded ...

On the Fourth of July 1776, the congressional delegates in Philadelphia adopted the Declaration of Independence, then ordered that it be widely “proclaimed.” Couriers carried the printed version by ...

[This post is excerpted from the new book, National Treasure: How the Declaration of Independence Made America (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster).] That Abraham Lincoln, our most American of ...

History teachers across the U.S. are working to make the nation's founding documents relevant as the 250th anniversary of the ...

Red-headed, spindle-shanked Thomas Jefferson was thirty-three years old when he drafted the Declaration of Independence, in 1776; he was so young and, as it turned out, so long-lived that he had ...

There was a lot going on in the 13 colonies in the hot summer of 1776, and while certain very well-known characters of the pending revolution might have been denizens of Philadelphia for the important ...

Like Americans today, the people living in the United States in 1826 were preparing to celebrate a milestone for their country. July Fourth of that year marked the 50th anniversary of the Declaration ...