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 ...

Matthew Spalding joined the RCP Podcast on Friday to explain why the Declaration of Independence was not merely an ...

The Declaration of Independence was approved on July 4, 1776, dissolving political ties with Great Britain. The Declaration outlines the philosophy that governments derive their power from the consent ...

Amid contention, criticism, and compromise, a divided nation had to present a unified front. It came at a cost.

In January 1777, Baltimore printer Mary Katharine Goddard published the first copies of the Declaration of Independence that included the signers’ names. By then, the document was already old news.

America is celebrating its 250th anniversary, and every one of us should be proud. I love this country. America has been very good to me. I am directly descended from the brother of Philip Livingston, ...

Behind the eleven-minute speech that founded Israel sits a 31-year-old lawyer nobody remembers, a frantic all-night edit, and ...

As a teenager in 1976, I remember the excitement building up to the bicentennial celebration of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Seemingly every clothing store, whether the elevated ...