Douglass and Lincoln alike clearly took inspiration from the Declaration of Independence—America's first Emancipation Proclamation. Both were committed to realizing the promises of 1776, nearly ...

Mecklenburg, North Carolina, is celebrating its own Declaration of Independence claiming it was signed a year before all the American colonies split from British rule. Here's a controversy that ...

American Revolution The Declaration of Independence Promotes Individual Liberty More than Collective Self-Determination This is true despite claims to the contrary by some on both the left and right.

The Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. It took five weeks past that point for its rejection of British authority to reach London.

The Declaration of Independence is full of promise and a few mysteries. A rare copy of it ended up at The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn.

Thomas Jefferson, portrayed by Kurt Smith, begins the day with a reading of the Declaration of Independence from the balcony of the Capitol at 9:30 a.m. Courtesy of Darnell Vennie/The Colonial ...

INSKEEP: Jefferson's declaration became a tool for those denied equal treatment. In 1848, a convention of women at Seneca Falls, N.Y., edited the declaration to make their Declaration of Sentiments.

Few people have written more eloquently about those world-altering times—and the cultural context from which the Declaration of Independence was birthed—than Dr. Larry Arnn, author of The ...