Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. Historian Andrew Davenport arrived at Monticello with an extraordinary ...

It was the most important writing assignment in world history. In May of 1776, John Adams, an accomplished draftsman who penned the state Constitution of Massachusetts (still the world's oldest), ...

Declaration of Independence still sparks important conversations. A new civics series at TFPL kicks off Tuesday at 7 p.m.

America's declaration of political independence is a story Americans are familiar with. But few know the story of America's declaration of cultural independence, which took the form of a speech by ...

Over the years, I have written various posts and articles on the American Revolution and the ideals of the Declaration of Independence. Some have obvious continuing relevance to such issues as ...

Suffice it to say, America is somewhat undereducated when it comes to civics, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Now is the time to change this ...

Here’s what the Civic Thought & Leadership Initiative is doing this year to celebrate 250 years of the Declaration of ...

One of the original copies of the Declaration of Independence is now featured in a new exhibition at IU, celebrating 250 years since the signing of the original.

The document, which will head to auction this spring, is one of roughly 125 broadsides from July 1776 known to survive ...

Perry Lower Intermediate School is celebrating the United States’ 250th anniversary by hosting a replica of the Declaration of Independence. For the remainder of the school year, the facility will ...

In the heart of downtown Dallas sits the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library. If you venture onto the seventh floor into a darkened back room, you’ll find a piece of what July Fourth is all about: an ...