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 ...

At Huntington Homestead, the Fourth of July celebration continued with a small and informal ceremony highlighting the importance of the Declaration of Independence. About 30 people gathered on the ...

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

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 ...

A decade before the Declaration was signed, Benjamin Franklin had warned the Brits against using their troops to quell unrest on colonial streets. The warning apparently went in one ear of King George ...