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

The American Philosophical Society Museum's new exhibit includes 19 printed copies of the Declaration, including an early ...

Here is a reading list of books about the Declaration of Independence and the American Revolution as both mark 250 years.

A few words in the Declaration of Independence, describing Indigenous people as "savages," did lasting damage, professor ...

Over the years, I have written various posts and articles on the American Revolution and the ideals of the Declaration of Independence. Some have obvious continuing relevance to such issues as ...

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 ...

In January 1777, Baltimore printer Mary Katharine Goddard published the first copies of the Declaration of Independence that included the signers’ names. By then, the document was already old news.

Professor Paul Seaton observes in his book Public Philosophy and Patriotism that the Declaration is an American epic poem that speaks to the depths of our political soul: The Declaration makes clear ...

A new Boston museum exhibit examines the American Revolution from the perspective of enslaved and free Black people. Black ...

The American Revolution is one of the world’s greatest stories and a fulcrum moment in human history, overturning the iron ...