"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: On this, the anniversary of our nation’s independence, we think it is important to publish these words that our forefathers inked 249 years ago in declaration of our fledgling nation’s ...

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

The effort of the government to spread opportunities for improvement of living standards is more important than many people ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This article was originally published in The Conversation. The Declaration of Independence was written by wealthy white men, but ...

Editor’s note: Americans may think they know a lot about the Declaration of Independence, but many of those ideas are elitist and wrong, as historian Woody Holton explains. His 2021 book Liberty is ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A good day to remember our Declaration of Independence July 4th is much more than BBQs and beer, parades and horns. It celebrates the birth of our nation, as ...