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

An extremely rare copy of the Declaration of Independence that was hidden behind wallpaper to protect it from ransacking Civil War troops, has surfaced. The Washington Post reports that the copy, ...

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

Roberts' year-end report on the federal judiciary includes some notable statements about the Declaration and its relevance to ...

America’s 250th birthday promises to inflame controversies about the character of the country’s founding — and it key ...

Every few years, I visit the site of the Deerfield Massacre of 1704 in nearby Berkshire County, Massachusetts. The massacre resulted from a guerilla raid on English settlers during the French and ...

Times readers can again expect to find a full-page transcription of the Declaration of Independence in the newspaper this Fourth of July. By David W. Dunlap In the In Times Past column, David W.

The official declaration of America’s independence from Britain may be dated July 4, 1776, but the story of the Thomas Jefferson's hallowed document really begins two weeks later. On July 19, the ...

When Thomas Jefferson was chosen to draft the Declaration of Independence, he had an exceedingly difficult task ahead of him. The 33-year-old planter, who had left law practice just before Britain’s ...