You might imagine the Declaration of Independence as a piece of parchment under glass, but in 1776, it was breaking news.

Red-headed, spindle-shanked Thomas Jefferson was thirty-three years old when he drafted the Declaration of Independence, in 1776; he was so young and, as it turned out, so long-lived that he had ...

IN THE BEGINNING, no one paid all that much attention to it—and, if they did, they were not particularly impressed. Now scriptural, the Declaration of Independence’s most famous sentence—“We hold ...

See more of our coverage in your search results. Add The New York Post on Google The Latinate term for the upcoming 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence is “semiquincentennial,” which ...

[This post is excerpted from the new book, National Treasure: How the Declaration of Independence Made America (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster).] That Abraham Lincoln, our most American of ...

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 ...

They launched a bold experiment to create a new nation where the government answered to the people, not the other way around. The experiment was built on a few core principles — human dignity, the ...

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