July 4th wasn’t the day Continental Congress members decided to declare independence; they did that on July 2, 1776. It ...

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

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

On July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress adopted a document introducing a new nation to the world, composed of 13 “free and ...

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 ...

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 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.

On the Fourth of July 1776, the congressional delegates in Philadelphia adopted the Declaration of Independence, then ordered that it be widely “proclaimed.” Couriers carried the printed version by ...

[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 ...