In a few short weeks we will commemorate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Its approval by the ...

At the annual conference and exhibition, to be held in its home city of Chicago June 25–29, the American Library Association ...

The National Archives, National Museum of American History and Library of Congress are all hosting special America 250 ...

The New York Historical thinks it has identified the anonymous printer behind a rare broadside printing of the Declaration ...

This is the second of a three-part series originally delivered as a lecture May 15 at a conference, “The Declaration of ...

The only known surviving Charleston-printed copy of the Declaration of Independence is now on display at the Charleston Museum.

This is the first of a three-part series based on a lecture delivered on May 15 at a conference, “The Declaration of ...

The Declaration of Independence with its earnest profession that “all men are created equal” and which held that governments could only secure their authority “from the consent of the governed”, ...

Historians and scholars continue to debate Thomas Jefferson's original intent behind the phrase "all men are created equal." Some scholars argue Jefferson's words were meant to include Black people, ...

The Declaration of Independence's reference to "merciless Indian savages" justified policies of removal and erasure against Native peoples. Professor David Martínez argues that mending relationships ...