The founding document has been fought over since it was written. Today, we can let Trump claim it, or we can take up its ...

I can’t think of a more fitting celebration of this Fourth of July than a reading of Walter Isaacson’s thin volume “The Greatest Sentence Ever Written. ” Isaacson is an influential public scholar, ...

Many largely accept Jefferson’s statements about rights, liberty, consent, criminality, and the role of government, however, many come short of adopting ...

One of the things he discusses with his historian guests, Yale’s David Blight and Harvard’s Annette Gordon-Reed, is the Declaration of Independence, which both historians called a “dangerous document” ...

Saturday marks 250 years since the Declaration of Independence was adopted. Most of us know the preamble by heart – “We hold these truths to be self-evident” – and little else.

But the events of 1776 are harder for Boston to claim. After the British evacuated these parts on March 17, the action moved ...

It still continues because the flame of liberty and independence still burns in the heart of every American patriot.” With ...

A Global History.” His edition of the “Outlines of a Counter-Declaration” will appear in the July issue of the William and ...

Historian and journalist Walter Isaacson writes that the Declaration's second sentence 'defines an enduring mission.' ...

On July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress adopted a document introducing a new nation to the world, composed of 13 “free and ...