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

But if Jefferson and his colleagues on the Committee of Five avoided specifying what a national government should look like, ...

Although July 4 marks the approval of the Declaration’s final wording, most delegates did not sign it that day. The formal ...

America celebrates the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, whose ideals resonated across the world, amid ...

Suffice it to say, America is somewhat undereducated when it comes to civics, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Now is the time to change this ...

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.

That Abraham Lincoln, our most American of presidents, "never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the ...

The Latinate term for the upcoming 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence is “semiquincentennial,” which doesn’t roll off the tongue easily. (You can use the alternative Latinates ...

With the 250 th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence less than three months away, most people recognize that Thomas Jefferson’s words in the second paragraph of that document, ...