This is the final essay in a series on the Declaration of Independence, in recognition of its 250th anniversary. Most of the ...

This is the final essay in a series on the Declaration of Independence, in recognition of its 250th anniversary.

When the signers of the Declaration of Independence pledged to each other their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor ...

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 ...

Delegates from across the original 13 colonies signed the Declaration of Independence 250 years ago on July 4, 1776, ...

I can’t think of a more fitting celebration of this Fourth of July than a reading of Walter Isaacson’s thin volume “The ...

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 United States marks 250 years of independence this July 4. Read our Declaration of Independence.

But the events of 1776 are harder for Boston to claim. After the British evacuated these parts on March 17, the action moved ...

On July 4, 1776, 250 years ago, the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence. This document wasn’t merely ...

The Declaration of Independence, ratified July 4, 1776, proclaimed the American colonies' separation from Britain and ...

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, adopted by the Second Continental Congress in ...