Thomas Jefferson deleted key passages in the Declaration of Independence that historian Holly Brewer says reveal as much as ...

You might imagine the Declaration of Independence as a piece of parchment under glass, but in 1776, it was breaking news.

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 ...

In January 1777, Baltimore printer Mary Katharine Goddard published the first copies of the Declaration of Independence that included the signers’ names. By then, the document was already old news.

It doesn't matter what the founders intended in the Declaration of Independence, the Rev. Byron Williams argues. It's all in writing.

In recent decades, the 1776 document's few references to God have been especially polarizing, as Americans defend starkly ...

It's been 250 years since the writing of the Declaration of Independence. Here's how you can mark the occasion.

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - People in Charleston had the chance to hear the text of the Declaration of Independence read aloud for the first time in August 1776. The Second Continental Congress adopted ...

The American Philosophical Society Museum's new exhibit includes 19 printed copies of the Declaration, including an early ...

A few words in the Declaration of Independence, describing Indigenous people as "savages," did lasting damage, professor David Martinez says.

That Abraham Lincoln, our most American of presidents, "never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the ...

Times readers can again expect to find a full-page transcription of the Declaration of Independence in the newspaper this Fourth of July. By David W. Dunlap See more of our coverage in your search ...