The Declaration of Independence, approved July 4, 1776, dissolved ties with Great Britain. Learn why it still matters.

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There are many reasons one might come to love one’s country. It first appears in the connection to place, a bond to a physical location, usually associated with where one grew up. It extends from ...

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 ...

The American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia has a new exhibit showcasing rare printings of the Declaration of ...

The Declaration of Independence, approved July 4, 1776, dissolved ties with Great Britain and established natural rights.

Historian Andrew Davenport arrived at Monticello with an extraordinary background: He knew that at the very moment Thomas Jefferson wrote a book called “Notes on the State of Virginia” that ridiculed ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Author Walter Isaacson explained why the first sentence in the Preamble to the Declaration of Independence is important. Author Walter Isaacson ...

They launched a bold experiment to create a new nation where the government answered to the people, not the other way around. The experiment was built on a few core principles — human dignity, the ...

About 1,700 hand-rolled Declaration of Independence scrolls get handed out each year. This year, that includes students at ...