How many times have we heard those words? In 2007, The Washington Post published an article by Gene Weingarten called “Pearls Before Breakfast.” In it, he chronicles an experiment by the newspaper, in ...

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

Its sanction came from a righteous cause, and as Congress began to edit Thomas Jefferson's draft on July 2 and 3, it found ...

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.

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 ...