On July 4, 1776, 56 men signed a document declaring 13 British colonies as one United States of America. By this charter, they formed a new country … one free from a distant king's rule. The ...

The Declaration of Independence is the pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 4, 1776. The Declaration explained why the 13 colonies at ...

In June of 1776, the Continental Congress formed a five-person committee consisting of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman and Robert R. Livingston to draft a declaration of ...

Many years ago a reader, Wallace Hooper, wrote to the Chronicle publisher with this request: “To celebrate this and every July Fourth, print the entire text of the Declaration of Independence.” In ...

We all know this part: But we don’t really know as much about the rest of the Declaration, which is a list of 27 grievances that America had against King George III of Great Britain. Congress decided ...

Richard M. Reinsch II is director of the B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies at The Heritage Foundation and columnist for The Daily Signal. He is also a senior writer for Law & Liberty. If we ...

Lauren Milliman peered through the display glass, admiring not just what the words on the parchment said, but also the way they looked, with flowing loops and flourishes. "I'm looking at how pretty it ...

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. He has forbidden his Governors to ...

LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump was shown a handwritten parchment copy of the U.S. Declaration of Independence - one of only two known to exist - during a visit to British Prime ...

Vice President Kamala Harris left out mentioning the right to life when quoting the Declaration of Independence on Sunday during a speech in support of abortion access. Harris' remarks in Tallahassee, ...

However, instead of looking ahead, we are looking back at the start of it all. On July 4, 1776, 56 men signed a document declaring 13 British colonies as one United States of America. This year, ...

Today we print the Declaration of Independence so that its text and ideas can be interrogated by a new generation. When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve ...