The original Declaration of Independence is secure in the National Archives, presumably safe from Nicolas Cage.

The Declaration of Independence, approved July 4, 1776, dissolved ties with Great Britain and established natural rights.

There are many reasons one might come to love one’s country. It first appears in the connection to place, a bond to a physical location, usually associated with where one grew up. It extends from ...

It is known as the “Fair Copy” of the Declaration of Independence — a rare, early, unedited version of the nation’s founding document, drafted in Jefferson’s eloquent hand, and containing a ...

Congress formally adopted the Declaration of Independence on the afternoon of July 4, 1776. What happened next? A little-known sequence of events tells the story. It speaks volumes about the ...

They launched a bold experiment to create a new nation where the government answered to the people, not the other way around. The experiment was built on a few core principles — human dignity, the ...

Until the founding of the United States of America, the nations of the West did not have to set forth the reasons for their existence and the basis of their authority. Land and blood established the ...

The exhibition invites visitors to step into a moment when American independence, and the nation itself, was still taking ...

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

The Lone Star State declared its independence from Mexico weeks before the final battle of the Texas Revolution. Here's why March 2, 1836 was a crucial day in Texas history.