A public reading of the entire text of two foundation documents of the United States of America; The Declaration of ...

The Declaration of Independence isn’t just a philosophical breakup letter. It was a strategic move to secure vital support ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An original printing of the "Dunlap Broadside" Declaration of Independence, now on display at IU's Lilly Library. Hoosiers don’t ...

Broadside printing of the document commenced hours after it was approved. Copies were read aloud in town squares.

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 ...

The Declaration of Independence was approved on July 4, 1776, dissolving political ties with Great Britain. The Declaration outlines the philosophy that governments derive their power from the consent ...

Suffice it to say, America is somewhat undereducated when it comes to civics, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Now is the time to change this ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mark Guiney is the manager of video production in Digital Productions at The Heritage Foundation. He also produces and creates video for The Daily Signal. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, ...