Written by Thomas Jefferson, the declaration was called the “Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms” and drafted this week in 1775 by the Second Continental Congress.

In remarks at Independence Hall in 1861, President Abraham Lincoln shared the roots of his political philosophy while ...

Concord unleashed to the world America's musical contributions, which sprang from our universal appeal as a nation.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the ...

The Declaration of Independence is full of promise and a few mysteries. A rare copy of it ended up at The Henry Ford Museum ...

The tyrant, of course, was King George III, the target of the Declaration of Independence. We take it for granted now, but the declaration was an enormous political innovation — in it, the country ...

In every generation, the Declaration of Independence has stood for a more expansive promise of freedom and equality.

The American Revolution was a turning point in modern history. It was one of the first successful movements to overthrow ...

BNP, Jamaat-e-Islami and 14 other political parties and platforms sought changes to the basic principles of the constitution. Of them, 15 called for revisions to the preamble, and 11 advocated for ...

The annual presentation by the Tuscaloosa County Bar Association is meant to serve as a reminder of what the Fourth of July celebration is all about.

If the Declaration of Independence wasn’t about the control of space and place, then just what was it about? Read it. Not just the preamble, the whole thing.

Members of The Arizona Republic staff read the Declaration of Independence on The Gaggle podcast in honor of July 4, Independence Day.