The Declaration of Independence, approved July 4, 1776, laid the groundwork for American government and rights.

In recent decades, the 1776 document's few references to God have been especially polarizing, as Americans defend starkly ...

The Declaration of Independence, approved on July 4, 1776, dissolved the American colonies' political ties with Great Britain. It listed grievances against King George III, including quartering troops ...

But if Jefferson and his colleagues on the Committee of Five avoided specifying what a national government should look like, ...

The audience of the Declaration of Independence was not King George III, it was the American people.

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 ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - People in Charleston had the chance to hear the text of the Declaration of Independence read aloud for the first time in August 1776. The Second Continental Congress adopted ...

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.