Recently discovered documents reveal a back-channel attempt by a leader of the Continental Congress to make peace. (He did ...

I can’t think of a more fitting celebration of this Fourth of July than a reading of Walter Isaacson’s thin volume “The Greatest Sentence Ever Written.” Isaacson is an influential public scholar and ...

On July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress adopted a document introducing a new nation to the world, composed of 13 “free and ...

Perhaps the most famous example of a founding-era Black American wielding the words of the Declaration as a promise to be ...

Most importantly, perhaps, we need to remember that the Declaration of Independence was proclaimed and signed by members of ...