On the Fourth of July 1776, the congressional delegates in Philadelphia adopted the Declaration of Independence, then ordered ...

For generations, Americans have looked to the Declaration of Independence as a defining statement of the nation's core ...

On 1776, Thomas Jefferson's Declaration remained a draft while George Washington confronted a collapsing Canada campaign.

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 ...

You might imagine the Declaration of Independence as a piece of parchment under glass, but in 1776, it was breaking news.

Thomas Jefferson deleted key passages in the Declaration of Independence that historian Holly Brewer says reveal as much as ...