The Declaration of Independence was a charter and a manifesto, yes, but in essence it was a memo, a hastily drafted, ...

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

Red-headed, spindle-shanked Thomas Jefferson was thirty-three years old when he drafted the Declaration of Independence, in 1776; he was so young and, as it turned out, so long-lived that he had ...

[This post is excerpted from the new book, National Treasure: How the Declaration of Independence Made America (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster).] That Abraham Lincoln, our most American of ...

The Declaration of Independence, approved on July 4, 1776, dissolved the American colonies' political ties with Great Britain. It established a foundation for American government based on natural ...

The Rev. Byron Williams argues the Declaration of Independence remains a radical document 250 years later. The Declaration's open-ended language has allowed marginalized groups to seek equal rights.