The declaration made fighting for human equality and the natural rights of all the foundation of American patriotism.

WASHINGTON, DC — The National Archives celebrated the Fourth of July by honoring the tradition of reading the Declaration of Independence to all that wished to hear. On July 4, 2024, a crowd gathered ...

Released online each Monday through June 29, the tickets grant access to one of the few surviving “fair copies” of the ...

Amid contention, criticism, and compromise, a divided nation had to present a unified front. It came at a cost.

Nothing looms larger than the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution in the pantheon of great American texts; they are the foundation of the nation. These documents seem ...

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, WHEN in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them ...

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of ...

Lists containing the names of some of the U.S. Founding Fathers and their respective ages on July 4, 1776, the date the Declaration of Independence was adopted, have circulated online since at least ...