The Declaration of Independence is the pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 4, 1776. The Declaration explained why the 13 colonies at ...

Educators are finding engaging ways to teach the Declaration of Independence on the 250th anniversary of its signing.

As the United States of America celebrates its 250th birthday, it’s a good time to read (or re-read) the Declaration of Independence. On July 2, 1776, the Continental Congress voted to declare ...

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The Declaration of Independence was first shared through public readings, not signatures. It took time to appear in printed versions. The famous engrossed parchment copy was not signed on a single day ...

Historian Andrew Davenport arrived at Monticello with an extraordinary background: He knew that at the very moment Thomas Jefferson wrote a book called “Notes on the State of Virginia” that ridiculed ...

How many times have we heard those words? In 2007, The Washington Post published an article by Gene Weingarten called “Pearls Before Breakfast.” In it, he chronicles an experiment by the newspaper, in ...