The Plymouth Historical Society will host constitutional scholar Meg Mott’s presentation “What the Declaration of ...

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the ...

The Declaration of Independence is the pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 4, 1776. The Declaration explained why the 13 colonies at ...

In the summer of 1776, Thomas Jefferson arrived in Philadelphia to help define a new nation — even as his own life embodied ...

When people argue, you can tell what matters most by the first words they reach for. The "first of all" is the wound that ...

There’s a new exhibition at the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia, “The Declaration’s Journey,” and yes, of ...

There’s no need to pull a Nicolas Cage this time. A rare printing of the Declaration of Independence will hit the auction block on January 24 at Sotheby’s. Known as the Essex Broadside, the document ...

A number of prominent historians have hit out at House Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene following an X post in which she falsely claimed six key figures from American history had signed the 1776 ...

Editor's note: In honor of Independence Day — this year, we mark 248 years since the United States parted with Great Britain — we present the nation's founding document, the Declaration of ...