Ahead of the America 250 celebration, TN attorney Paul Summers begins a public civics study, starting with a look at the ...

America’s 250th birthday promises to inflame controversies about the character of the country’s founding — and it key ...

Most people are taught that Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence alone. The real story is more ...

As America turns 250, we trace the triumphs, contradictions and arguments that shaped the world’s first liberal republic And ...

The author of ‘The Greatest Sentence Ever Written,’ says, ‘Maybe reflecting on the Declaration of Independence and the values ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (PIX11) — You can’t judge this book ...

Roberts' year-end report on the federal judiciary includes some notable statements about the Declaration and its relevance to ...

Thomas Jefferson's "original Rough draught," or rough draft, of the Declaration of Independence, written in June 1776, includes dozens of edits from historical figures, including John Adams and ...

When Dartmouth College history professor Matthew Delmont recently re-read the Declaration of Independence — signed 244 years ago this weekend in steamy Philadelphia — he paused at a word repeated 10 ...

As another Fourth of July holiday comes around, it goes without saying that much has changed since the days that the Declaration of Independence was written and published 245 years ago. Sure, it ...

Today is Juneteenth. The most recently recognized federal holiday (formalized in 2021 as Juneteenth National Independence Day), Juneteenth recognizes the freeing of enslaved people in Texas at the end ...