The Benjamin Cooper House's $4 million construction project will add plumbing, electric and exhibits on the building's ...

Summertime and our nation's birth are immutably linked, and every year when the days start heating up I'm reminded of that ...

Summertime and our nation's birth are immutably linked, and every year when the days start heating up I'm reminded of that singular July of 1776 when greatness in government appeared on this continent ...

Written by Thomas Jefferson, the declaration was called the “Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms” and drafted this week in 1775 by the Second Continental Congress.

It was with good reason that Lincoln, as devoted a student of the Declaration of Independence as any American president—with the possible exception of its author, Thomas Jefferson—pointed to the ...

Have you ever wondered why we observe America’s birthday on July 4? Sure, the Declaration of Independence was famously ...

Jefferson, who has been called “the apostle of liberty,” delivered some of the most impassioned criticisms of slavery in the ...

Concord unleashed to the world America's musical contributions, which sprang from our universal appeal as a nation.

The Thirteen British colonies that would become the first of the United States — Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, ...

The text says that governments are human constructions. The legitimacy of governments depends upon democratic consent, not ...

Selfishly, we implore Douglas to reconsider his retirement until after his dramatic retelling of the Reykjavík Summit. Still, ...

The Declaration of Independence is a revolutionary document that transformed governance from monarchy to democracy and ...