A few words in the Declaration of Independence, describing Indigenous people as "savages," did lasting damage, professor ...

As the USA celebrates the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, a leading historian talks about why it ...

(KTAL/KMSS) – As schoolchildren, Americans are taught about a fateful day in July when 56 people approved the Declaration of Independence and used cursive to initiate the escape from the reign of King ...

Editor’s note: Americans may think they know a lot about the Declaration of Independence, but many of those ideas are elitist and wrong, as historian Woody Holton explains. His 2021 book Liberty is ...

The American Revolution is one of the world’s greatest stories and a fulcrum moment in human history, overturning the iron ...

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.

In recent decades, the 1776 document's few references to God have been especially polarizing, as Americans defend starkly ...

Here is a reading list of books about the Declaration of Independence and the American Revolution as both mark 250 years.

The American Philosophical Society Museum's new exhibit includes 19 printed copies of the Declaration, including an early ...