What makes a word ‘Canadian’? These linguistic warriors are working hard to find out Maybe obsessing over such a rote ...

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

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

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

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

Educators are finding engaging ways to teach the Declaration of Independence on the 250th anniversary of its signing.

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

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

Portraits of a red-headed Thomas Jefferson, left, and John Dickinson, right, by by Charles Willson Peale are seen at the ...

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

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 ...

Most importantly, perhaps, we need to remember that the Declaration of Independence was proclaimed and signed by members of ...