While most Americans grew up hearing that the Declaration of Independence was a revolutionary document giving Americans “the ...

Amid contention, criticism, and compromise, a divided nation had to present a unified front. It came at a cost.

However, instead of looking ahead, we are looking back at the start of it all. On July 4, 1776, 56 men signed a document declaring 13 British colonies as one United States of America. This year, ...

Governing principles came in 1789 with the U.S. Constitution, which did not mention God. In 1791, states then ratified the ...

The New York Historical thinks it has identified the anonymous printer behind a rare broadside printing of the Declaration made soon after July 4, 1776. By Jennifer Schuessler Before the Declaration ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Created 1776, The United States Declaration of Independence is the pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress ...

When Thomas Jefferson was chosen to draft the Declaration of Independence, he had an exceedingly difficult task ahead of him. The 33-year-old planter, who had left law practice just before Britain’s ...

Times readers can again expect to find a full-page transcription of the Declaration of Independence in the newspaper this Fourth of July. By David W. Dunlap See more of our coverage in your search ...

Thomas Jefferson deleted key passages in the Declaration of Independence that historian Holly Brewer says reveal as much as what he left.

The Declaration of Independence confidently announces that America is now a separate nation from Britain and declares the new nation’s purpose, making it essential to our Founding. To understand and ...

The only known surviving copy of the Declaration of Independence printed south of Philadelphia is back in Charleston, where a ...

A few words in the Declaration of Independence, describing Indigenous people as "savages," did lasting damage, professor ...