But if Jefferson and his colleagues on the Committee of Five avoided specifying what a national government should look like, ...

In January 1777, Baltimore printer Mary Katharine Goddard published the first copies of the Declaration of Independence that included the signers’ names. By then, the document was already old news.

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

Among longtime history teacher Karalee Wong Nakatsuka’s most prized possessions are two nearly identical T-shirts with very ...

On July 4, 1776, the United States declared its independence from Great Britain. The nation's founding document is fittingly named the Declaration of Independence, and it outlines how the then-13 ...

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 ...

America’s founding document, including the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, came dangerously close to falling into enemy ...

How many times have we heard those words? In 2007, The Washington Post published an article by Gene Weingarten called “Pearls Before Breakfast.” In it, he chronicles an experiment by the newspaper, in ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: On this, the anniversary of our nation’s independence, we think it is important to publish these words that our forefathers inked 249 years ago in declaration of our fledgling nation’s ...

Every American schoolchild is taught that the Declaration of Independence was published on July 4, 1776, and that it proclaims that “all men are created equal” and that we are endowed by our “Creator” ...