A historic copy of the Declaration of Independence will be on display at the Museum of the American Revolution as part of a new exhibit the opens this fall. The poster-sized copy of the Declaration, ...

A new book by historian Emily Sneff records the journeys of the Declaration's first printed copies, tracking their reception in the Thirteen Colonies and overseas ...

That Abraham Lincoln, our most American of presidents, "never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the ...

“Fix It Up, in Open View,” by Emily Sneff, from Fire and Freedom: The American Revolution in New York, ed. Thomas S. Wermuth, ...

The Latinate term for the upcoming 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence is “semiquincentennial,” which doesn’t roll off the tongue easily. (You can use the alternative Latinates ...

It’s common for Americans on July 4 th to read and discuss the Declaration of Independence, and to reflect on its principles and ideas. Those principles and ideas are often attributed solely—though ...

The Declaration of Independence, approved on July 4, 1776, dissolved the American colonies' political ties with Great Britain. It established a foundation for American government based on natural ...

Read today, the Declaration of Independence is a freedom document. It stands for absolute human equality and represents the highest ideals of the American republic. On July 4, we celebrate it as much ...