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

“The Declaration’s Journey” opens with a dramatic juxtaposition: A Windsor chair owned by Thomas Jefferson, principal author of the Declaration of Independence, faces the small, rusting steel bench on ...

The official declaration of America’s independence from Britain may be dated July 4, 1776, but the story of the Thomas Jefferson's hallowed document really begins two weeks later. On July 19, the ...

Joseph Postell is associate professor of politics at Hillsdale College and a visiting fellow in the B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies at The Heritage Foundation. He is the author of the ...

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

How many of these Declaration of Independence facts do you know? As the 4th of July nears, Americans may be curious about the interesting history and trivia surrounding the holiday. Many people know ...

This Fourth of July will mark the 239th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, the document that birthed the nation. You may know about John Hancock’s famously large signature ...

For more than a century, scholars and researchers searched for a printed version of Haiti's Declaration of Independence. In December 1952, the Haitian intellectual Edmond Mangonès wrote to his country ...

We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of ...