As the country approaches the 250th anniversary of July 4, 1776, a college professor is examining how the Declaration of ...

It is known as the “Fair Copy” of the Declaration of Independence — a rare, early, unedited version of the nation’s founding document, drafted in Jefferson’s eloquent hand, and containing a ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — New Yorkers will get exclusive access to Thomas Jefferson’s handwritten iteration of the Declaration of Independence this summer, thanks to the New York Public Library. The ...

The main objectives of the Declaration of Independence were to announce a cause of action and formally justify the Continental Congress’s July 2, 1776, decision to separate from Great Britain. The ...

In June of 1776, the Continental Congress formed a five-person committee consisting of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman and Robert R. Livingston to draft a declaration of ...

On June 11, 1776, the Second Continental Congress assigned five delegates to write the first draft of the Declaration of Independence. The Committee included Thomas Jefferson from Virginia, John Adams ...

Until the founding of the United States of America, the nations of the West did not have to set forth the reasons for their existence and the basis of their authority. Land and blood established the ...

As a people, we feel lost. Our political life is full of division and animosity. Our society struggles to find its sense of ...

The Declaration of Independence articulates ideas that are as relevant today as they were when it was written, and it is a ...