(The Conversation) — On the Fourth of July 1776, the congressional delegates in Philadelphia adopted the Declaration of Independence, then ordered that it be widely “proclaimed.” Couriers carried the ...

Although long revered as an “American scripture”, the Declaration of Independence actually “began its life as a press release”, with a limited, pragmatic purpose, writes the historian Michael D.

July 4 is a red- white- and blue-letter day to recall the Declaration of Independence. Who better to give insights about it than Archbishop Fulton Sheen? As perceptive and prophetic as ever of what ...

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We love a nice round number—and 250 years since the U.S. War of Independence began is too significant to pass up. Somehow in fifty years of living on the East Coast, I haven’t toured Philadelphia’s ...

NPR is facing a wave of backlash after criticizing the Declaration of Independence on the Fourth of July — saying the document has “flaws and deeply ingrained hypocrisies,” adding, in the context of ...

Three rare copies of the Declaration of Independence dating to the early 1800s went on display Tuesday at the Durham County Library.

Danielle Allen, a political philosopher and professor at Harvard, is the winner of this year’s Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Nonfiction for her most recent book, Our Declaration: A Reading of ...

One of 26 remaining copies of the “Dunlap Broadside,” the first printed version of the Declaration of Independence, is on view at the Bangor Public Library until Saturday.

The parchment -- auctioned off Thursday in Philadelphia -- was actually just one of only a few dozen known remaining copies of the Declaration printed by master engraver William Stone.

Every American schoolchild is taught that the Declaration of Independence was published on July 4, 1776, and that it proclaims that “all men are created equal” and that we are endowed by our “Creator” ...