Twenty community members solemnly, and with much emotion, read the document which was first read publicly on July 1, ...

This article was originally published in The Conversation. The Declaration of Independence was written by wealthy white men, but the impetus for independence came from ordinary Americans. Historian ...

Editor’s note: Americans may think they know a lot about the Declaration of Independence, but many of those ideas are elitist and wrong, as historian Woody Holton explains. His 2021 book Liberty is ...

Newark Advocate Faith Works columnist Jeff Gill discusses the faith and politics that went into writing the Declaration of ...

Imagine the shock of being a king whose word was never disputed or questioned, being kicked to the curb by a bunch of scrub colonists. Someone recently described the Declaration of Independence as the ...

It was the most important writing assignment in world history. In May of 1776, John Adams, an accomplished draftsman who penned the state Constitution of Massachusetts (still the world's oldest), ...

As we near July Fourth, one fascinating story from American history will remain largely untold: how the Declaration of Independence — the document itself — was written, copied and stored. The whole ...

During public participation at the Jan. 15 Westfield City Council meeting, former City Solicitor Peter Martin read excerpts ...

On July 4, 2026, the United States will celebrate the 250th anniversary of its founding, marked by the Continental Congress’ adoption of the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration has inspired ...

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 ...

Humans have produced some great sentences over the years, such as this one from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby,” “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the ...