Two hundred and fifty years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, a new commercial asks: What if the Founding ...
A window display in a Williamsburg yard shop features Thomas Jefferson’s likeness wearing an authentic wardrobe, wig and ...
Gordon Wood’s argument for the “radicalism” of the Revolution reveals something profound — and hopeful — about America.
Content with his intellectual, architectural and other pursuits at home in Monticello, Thomas Jefferson had no intention of becoming a political leader during the founding of America.
Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in the North Dakota Badlands represents 26th president’s civic and conservation ...
The document is one of only 11 known copies of the Exeter printing, made just days after the original was signed in 1776.
Brigham Young University professor Robert Buchert recreated the Declaration of Independence 250 years after its original creation.
Adams was among his detractors, dismissing him as a “piddling genius whose fame has been trumpeted so loudly.” In the 1840s, ...
On this bright morning in high summer, Tom Holland barrels down narrow lanes bordered by tangled bushes, yellow grass and ...
A volunteer at the National Archives in London found the document among other papers seized from an American ship in 1776.
Since the writing of The Declaration of Independence 250 years ago, the document has been an aspirational guide for our ...
A volunteer cataloging naval letters came across a copy of the document, printed 250 years ago in New Hampshire. “It was a ...