United States’ Declaration of Independence, often considered to be the birth of America. While July 4 has been considered America’s birthday ...

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I can’t think of a more fitting celebration of this Fourth of July than a reading of Walter Isaacson’s thin volume “The Greatest Sentence Ever Written.” Isaacson is an influential public scholar and ...

This is the final essay in a series on the Declaration of Independence, in recognition of its 250th anniversary. Most of the text of the Declaration of Independence addressed then-current events: the ...

Listed simply as “another paper” in the Royal Navy inventory, the Declaration remained buried in British archives for 250 years.

July Fourth marked 249 years since the 13 American colonies rejected a British monarch and embraced freedom. But as we enter the first days of our 250th year on this Earth, it feels like we’re moving ...

A rare, surviving copy of the Declaration of Independence ended up at The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn. The historic document is receiving extra attention this year — and the next, America's 250th ...