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Recently discovered documents reveal a back-channel attempt by a leader of the Continental Congress to make peace. (He did ...

The word deadline has a dark origin, the Merriam-Webster dictionary’s website says, dating back to prisons in the U.S. Civil ...

On July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress adopted a document introducing a new nation to the world, composed of 13 “free and ...

Jon Meacham is among many historians reflecting on the complex legacy of Thomas Jefferson. He notes that Jefferson's life and ...

Bartlett M. Frost’s diorama is modeled after John Trumbull's depiction of the presentation of the Declaration of Independence ...

The physical journey of the Declaration of Independence tells its own story. Its imperfections and endurance reflect those of ...

Perhaps the most famous example of a founding-era Black American wielding the words of the Declaration as a promise to be ...

I can’t think of a more fitting celebration of this Fourth of July than a reading of Walter Isaacson’s thin volume “The Greatest Sentence Ever Written.” Isaacson is an influential public scholar and ...

Thomas Jefferson was tasked with drafting a wartime document declaring independence. How did it become one of history’s most enduring symbols?