The Declaration of Independence, with its block of cursive letters scrawled onto parchment, looks like a relic from the distant past. Likewise, you might think the 27 grievances against King George ...

The founding document has been fought over since it was written. Today, we can let Trump claim it, or we can take up its ...

The Declaration of Independence's ideal that "all men are created equal" is a foundational, yet radical, concept for the ...

Many largely accept Jefferson’s statements about rights, liberty, consent, criminality, and the role of government, however, many come short of adopting ...

From Roman freedom to Viking happiness, the iconic words in the Declaration of Independence reveal thousands of years of ...

A retired insurance broker has uncovered a "vanishingly rare" copy of the US Declaration of Independence. Michael Scurr made ...

The Freedom Truck mobile museum program, rolling nationwide through December, amounts to six semi-trucks of Semiquincentennial pride.

It still continues because the flame of liberty and independence still burns in the heart of every American patriot.” With ...

The Declaration was written by imperfect men. However, the message of freedom has endured and inspired others around the ...

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 ...

We examine several countries that have used America, the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution to build and foster their own ideas of freedom from government and religious despots.

The presentation of an original German-language translation in Berlin is an opportunity to consider the shared history of the ...