This is the second of a three-part series originally delivered as a lecture May 15 at a conference, “The Declaration of ...

Amid contention, criticism, and compromise, a divided nation had to present a unified front. It came at a cost.

It doesn't matter what the founders intended in the Declaration of Independence, the Rev. Byron Williams argues. It's all in writing.

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 ...

On Constitution Day in September 2020—less than two months before his re-election defeat—President Donald Trump staged a White House Conference on American History at the National Archives in ...

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

With the 250 th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence less than three months away, most people recognize that Thomas Jefferson’s words in the second paragraph of that document, ...

The men who drafted the Declaration of Independence read the newspapers in Philadelphia, and they were influenced by the rumors being reported. When the Continental Congress voted to declare ...

Author Walter Isaacson is drawn to minds that bend the world. He writes about men who catch lightning, who bottle reason, who turn math into light and light into money. He likes people whose thoughts ...

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 ...

The main objectives of the Declaration of Independence were to announce a cause of action and formally justify the Continental Congress’s July 2, 1776, decision to separate from Great Britain. The ...