In January 1777, Baltimore printer Mary Katharine Goddard published the first copies of the Declaration of Independence that included the signers’ names. By then, the document was already old news.

In a special America 250 issue, Reason takes a look back at our country's founding people and ideas. Read more here. Joanna Andreasson The men who drafted the Declaration of Independence read the ...

[This post is excerpted from the new book, National Treasure: How the Declaration of Independence Made America (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster).] Though Thomas Jefferson's phrases in the ...

Amid contention, criticism, and compromise, a divided nation had to present a unified front. It came at a cost.

Hoosiers don’t have to travel to Washington, D.C. or Philadelphia to see one of the most important artifacts of the American Revolution; starting this month, just one of just 26 surviving copies of ...