Educators are finding engaging ways to teach the Declaration of Independence on the 250th anniversary of its signing.

Today, we celebrate the 250th birthday of our nation, on the grounds that this is the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. It was enacted by the Second Continental Congress, which ...

The Town of Wells, Maine, has uncovered an extraordinary local link to the nation’s founding.

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Michael Auslin is a fellow at the Hoover Institution and author of “National Treasure: How the Declaration of Independence Made America,” from which this article was adapted. On the morning of May 6, ...

The Declaration of Independence, approved on July 4, 1776, dissolved the American colonies' political ties with Great Britain. It established a foundation for American government based on natural ...

The main objectives of the Declaration of Independence were to announce a cause of action and formally justify the Continental Congress’s July 2, 1776, decision to separate from Great Britain. The ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! C-SPAN toured the Museum of the American Revolution's "The Declaration's Journey" exhibit in Philadelphia. Collections and Exhibitions Director ...

More than 250 years ago, the United States began a difficult journey toward independence, a goal that would forever change the course of world history. The adoption of the Declaration of Independence ...

The Latinate term for the upcoming 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence is “semiquincentennial,” which doesn’t roll off the tongue easily. (You can use the alternative Latinates ...

A.O. Scott is a Times critic who writes about literature and ideas. “The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem,” Walt Whitman wrote, but the nation was conceived in prose. Other ...

Suffice it to say, America is somewhat undereducated when it comes to civics, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Now is the time to change this ...