The objects were discovered on Liberty Hill, the place where many Continental Army soldiers heard the text of the Declaration ...

It’s poetry, philosophy and polemic, all in a little more than 1,300 words and all represented in its second and most famous ...

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

STUDYING THEM, AND THEY COULD WIN A PRIZE. OUR TODD KAZAKIEWICHEPORTS. THIS IS ONE OF 25 MILLION COPIES OF THE FIRST PRINTING OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, THE MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY ...

Across eight months of conversations with historians, legal scholars, museum leaders, and theologians, USA250’s Outspoken project asks how the American ideals of liberty and equality have changed ...

“We hold these truths to be self-evident…” Back by popular demand again this year is a reading of the Declaration of Independence by YOU! out loud for all to hear at one of the only structures in the ...

The Declaration of Independence, approved on July 4, 1776, dissolved the American colonies' political ties with Great Britain. It listed grievances against King George III, including quartering troops ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

David Martinez| Byron Williams | Michael Crow | Holly Brewer| Emily Sneff| Joseph Ellis| Donald Grinde, Jr.| Felipe Fernández-Armesto| Noelle Trent| Timothy Sandefur ...