A few words in the Declaration of Independence, describing Indigenous people as "savages," did lasting damage, professor ...

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The New York Historical thinks it has identified the anonymous printer behind a rare broadside printing of the Declaration ...

It doesn't matter what the founders intended in the Declaration of Independence, the Rev. Byron Williams argues. It's all in ...

Read today, the Declaration of Independence is a freedom document. It stands for absolute human equality and represents the highest ideals of the American republic. On July 4, we celebrate it as much ...

July Fourth marked 249 years since the 13 American colonies rejected a British monarch and embraced freedom. But as we enter the first days of our 250th year on this Earth, it feels like we’re moving ...

Thomas Jefferson deleted key passages in the Declaration of Independence that historian Holly Brewer says reveal as much as ...

NPR's Noel King talks to historian David Blight, who puts the Declaration of Independence into historical context. He reminds us what was going on in this country when the document was drafted. This ...

Evidence shows most of the 47 men in famous 'Declaration of Independence' painting were slaveholders As the nation observes the 400th anniversary of slavery, a Chicago documentary filmmaker tweeted ...

As the 250th anniversary nears, a fast-growing network of clergy is treating the Declaration of Independence as a sacred text ...