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.

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 ...

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 guys are not that popular anymore. This Independence Day weekend you will probably hear more negative than positive about ...

News of the Declaration of Independence reached Great Britain in August 1776 and ignited a media frenzy, according to the Jack Miller Center, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit dedicated to teaching about ...

Delegates to the Second Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia on the Fourth of July in 1776, issued a remarkable document, proclaiming the 13 colonies in America to be free from ...