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

Red-headed, spindle-shanked Thomas Jefferson was thirty-three years old when he drafted the Declaration of Independence, in 1776; he was so young and, as it turned out, so long-lived that he had ...

The Declaration of Independence, approved on July 4, 1776, dissolved the American colonies' political ties with Great Britain. It established a foundation for American government based on natural ...

[This post is excerpted from the new book, National Treasure: How the Declaration of Independence Made America (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster).] That Abraham Lincoln, our most American of ...

The Rev. Byron Williams argues the Declaration of Independence remains a radical document 250 years later. The Declaration's open-ended language has allowed marginalized groups to seek equal rights.

While most Americans grew up hearing that the Declaration of Independence was a revolutionary document giving Americans “the ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...