It’s common for Americans on July 4 th to read and discuss the Declaration of Independence, and to reflect on its principles and ideas. Those principles and ideas are often attributed solely—though ...

A new book by historian Emily Sneff records the journeys of the Declaration's first printed copies, tracking their reception in the Thirteen Colonies and overseas ...

“The Declaration’s Journey” opens with a dramatic juxtaposition: A Windsor chair owned by Thomas Jefferson, principal author of the Declaration of Independence, faces the small, rusting steel bench on ...

That Abraham Lincoln, our most American of presidents, "never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the ...

An 1823 copy of the Declaration of Independence on display in Kansas City, MO, as part of the National Archives’ Freedom Plane tour. Some of the most treasured documents in early American history are ...

These rare early copies of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights will go under the hammer on June 26. Courtesy of Sotheby's Later this month, Sotheby’s will ...

There are many reasons one might come to love one’s country. It first appears in the connection to place, a bond to a physical location, usually associated with where one grew up. It extends from ...

Suffice it to say, America is somewhat undereducated when it comes to civics, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Now is the time to change this ...

History teachers across the U.S. are working to make the nation's founding documents relevant as the 250th anniversary of the ...

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 ...