This year, the United States will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Between ...

PHILADELPHIA – Written by Thomas Jefferson, adopted on July 4, an international symbol of liberty. But how much do you really ...

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 ...

Amid contention, criticism, and compromise, a divided nation had to present a unified front. It came at a cost.

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

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 ...

Editor’s note: Americans may think they know a lot about the Declaration of Independence, but many of those ideas are elitist and wrong, as historian Woody Holton explains. His 2021 book Liberty is ...

The American Revolution is one of the world’s greatest stories and a fulcrum moment in human history, overturning the iron laws that had forged Western civilisation to that point – namely that power ...

In recent decades, the 1776 document's few references to God have been especially polarizing, as Americans defend starkly ...

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.