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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

[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 ...