The Declaration of Independence isn’t just a philosophical breakup letter. It was a strategic move to secure vital support ...

The very claim made in its opening is that the American experiment is justified not by majority will or sectarian creed but by the obvious truth that all men are created equal, and they are divinely ...

The New York Historical thinks it has identified the anonymous printer behind a rare broadside printing of the Declaration ...

The Declaration of Independence was approved on July 4, 1776, dissolving political ties with Great Britain. The Declaration outlines the philosophy that governments derive their power from the consent ...

[This post is excerpted from the new book, National Treasure: How the Declaration of Independence Made America (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster).] To the delegates of the Continental Congress, the ...

IN THE BEGINNING, no one paid all that much attention to it—and, if they did, they were not particularly impressed. Now scriptural, the Declaration of Independence’s most famous sentence—“We hold ...

Suffice it to say, America is somewhat undereducated when it comes to civics, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Now is the time to change this ...

[This post is excerpted from the new book, National Treasure: How the Declaration of Independence Made America (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster).] Though Thomas Jefferson's phrases in the ...

The only known surviving copy of the Declaration of Independence printed south of Philadelphia is back in Charleston, where a ...