Educators are finding engaging ways to teach the Declaration of Independence on the 250th anniversary of its signing.
From Roman freedom to Viking happiness, the iconic words in the Declaration of Independence reveal thousands of years of humans wrestling with how to live well together.
On the Fourth of July 1776, the congressional delegates in Philadelphia adopted the Declaration of Independence, then ordered ...
I frequently answer constitutional questions from individuals who want to know more about the relationship between the ...
The main objectives of the Declaration of Independence were to announce a cause of action and formally justify the Continental Congress’s July 2, 1776, decision to separate from Great Britain. The ...
Joseph J. Thorndike examines the historical context behind the single tax grievance in the Declaration of Independence.
How the Declaration of Independence inspired the world despite Jefferson’s contradictions on slavery
Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. Historian Andrew Davenport arrived at Monticello with an extraordinary ...
Red-headed, spindle-shanked Thomas Jefferson was thirty-three years old when he drafted the Declaration of Independence, in 1776; he was so young and, as it turned out, so long-lived that he had ...
What Thomas Jefferson meant by "the pursuit of happiness" may be very different from what Americans mean today.
When Thomas Jefferson was chosen to draft the Declaration of Independence, he had an exceedingly difficult task ahead of him. The 33-year-old planter, who had left law practice just before Britain’s ...
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