On 4 July, 250 years ago this week, America declared itself free from British colonial rule ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A reproduction of the Declaration of Independence. Photo: Second Continental Congress via William Stone / Wikimedia Commons / ...

On July 19, 1776, Congress ordered the Declaration onto parchment as Washington sent 300 men to strengthen defenses near New ...

A volunteer sorting through historical papers at the National Archives in London has identified a vanishingly rare copy of the Declaration of Independence. The document surfaced among materials seized ...

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 ...

Michael Auslin is a fellow at the Hoover Institution and author of “National Treasure: How the Declaration of Independence Made America,” from which this article was adapted. On the morning of May 6, ...

A.O. Scott is a Times critic who writes about literature and ideas. “The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem,” Walt Whitman wrote, but the nation was conceived in prose. Other ...

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 ...

Listed simply as “another paper” in the Royal Navy inventory, the Declaration remained buried in British archives for 250 years.

The Latinate term for the upcoming 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence is “semiquincentennial,” which doesn’t roll off the tongue easily. (You can use the alternative Latinates ...

I frequently answer constitutional questions from individuals who want to know more about the relationship between the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. Most of them understand that ...