The Declaration of Independence is the pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 4, 1776. The Declaration explained why the 13 colonies at ...

As America turns 250, we trace the triumphs, contradictions and arguments that shaped the world’s first liberal republic And ...

On July 4, 1776, 56 men signed a document declaring 13 British colonies as one United States of America. By this charter, they formed a new country … one free from a distant king's rule. The ...

In June of 1776, the Continental Congress formed a five-person committee consisting of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman and Robert R. Livingston to draft a declaration of ...

Richard M. Reinsch II is director of the B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies at The Heritage Foundation and columnist for The Daily Signal. He is also a senior writer for Law & Liberty. If we ...

The Declaration of Independence confidently announces that America is now a separate nation from Britain and declares the new nation’s purpose, making it essential to our Founding. To understand and ...

The connection between individual liberty and the principles of the Declaration of Independence should be obvious. After all, the most famous passage in the Declaration states that all men have the ...

Many years ago a reader, Wallace Hooper, wrote to the Chronicle publisher with this request: “To celebrate this and every July Fourth, print the entire text of the Declaration of Independence.” In ...

We all know this part: But we don’t really know as much about the rest of the Declaration, which is a list of 27 grievances that America had against King George III of Great Britain. Congress decided ...

However, instead of looking ahead, we are looking back at the start of it all. On July 4, 1776, 56 men signed a document declaring 13 British colonies as one United States of America. This year, ...