Most importantly, perhaps, we need to remember that the Declaration of Independence was proclaimed and signed by members of ...

It still continues because the flame of liberty and independence still burns in the heart of every American patriot.” With ...

I can’t think of a more fitting celebration of this Fourth of July than a reading of Walter Isaacson’s thin volume “The Greatest Sentence Ever Written.” Isaacson is an influential public scholar and ...

Educators are finding engaging ways to teach the Declaration of Independence on the 250th anniversary of its signing.

Editor's note: This is the third in a five-part series of essays on American history by Uyless Black.

The Declaration of Independence, approved on July 4, 1776, dissolved the American colonies' political ties with Great Britain. It established a foundation for American government based on natural ...

The Declaration of Independence was first shared through public readings, not signatures. It took time to appear in printed versions. The famous engrossed parchment copy was not signed on a single day ...

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 ...

Acts of war and violence Hello Downriver, For 250 years we’ve celebrated the adoption of our Declaration of Independence on ...

The Rev. Byron Williams argues the Declaration of Independence remains a radical document 250 years later. The Declaration's open-ended language has allowed marginalized groups to seek equal rights.

[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 ...