Two Pulitzer Prize-winning historians discuss the history of the Declaration of Independence, and its founding principle that "all men are created equal." On this Independence Day, we hear some ...

The Stamp Act met with unified colonial resistance because this direct tax imposed on the colonies by Parliament was a novel tax, meant to collect revenue. Numerous forms of communication ...

Drafted by Thomas Jefferson between June 11 and June 28, 1776, the Declaration of Independence is at once ... whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit ...

He signed the Declaration of Independence as “Charles Carroll of ... after the British government imposed the unpopular Tea Act and Stamp Act on the colonies. He was an avid supporter of George ...

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 ...

But the President appears to have forgotten that the Declaration of Independence, an actual act of high treason against Britain and King George III, is a literal declaration of the 13 colonies ...

Among its reasons for revolution, the Declaration of Independence cites many grievances against King George III and British rule. Many apply to the current president.

I read the Declaration of Independence in a video message annually ... While that freedom was initially limited to land-owning white men, that act of defiance, which preceded the Revolutionary ...

On July 4, 1776, the United States declared its independence from Great Britain. The nation's founding document is fittingly named the Declaration of Independence, and it outlines how the then-13 ...

Been in a state of conflict. INSKEEP: When did people who were not included in the promise of equality begin making use of the Declaration of Independence to argue for equality? GORDON-REED ...