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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 ...

Author Walter Isaacson is drawn to minds that bend the world. He writes about men who catch lightning, who bottle reason, who turn math into light and light into money. He likes people whose thoughts ...

Ahead of the America 250 celebration, TN attorney Paul Summers begins a public civics study, starting with a look at the ...

Professor Paul Seaton observes in his book Public Philosophy and Patriotism that the Declaration is an American epic poem that speaks to the depths of our political soul: The Declaration makes clear ...

Independence Day, also known as the Fourth of July, marks the birth of the United States as an independent nation. On this day in 1776, the Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of ...

They are, perhaps, the most famous 1,322 words ever strung together. And in assembling them, Thomas Jefferson accomplished far more than simply announcing to the world that the American colonies were ...

President Biden cited the Declaration of Independence in his opening remarks at the Democracy Summit on Thursday but amended it to include women as he discussed the importance of American ideals.

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.” As we ...

Along with the words and phrases that still ring out 239 years later are less noticed turns of phrase. They say a lot about the messages Thomas... Just A Few Important Words About The Declaration Of ...

"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 ...