Michael Scurr, a volunteer at Britain’s National Archives, has discovered a rare early copy of the Declaration of ...

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died within hours of each other on the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of ...

Continental Congress declared independence from Britain. WVIK staff and listeners commemorate this anniversary by reading the ...

Dear George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay and ...

As we gather this week to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, let’s remember what makes our ...

The Declaration was written by imperfect men. However, the message of freedom has endured and inspired others around the ...

Thomas Jefferson was tasked with drafting a wartime document declaring independence. How did it become one of history’s most enduring symbols?

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary ...

I can’t think of a more fitting celebration of this Fourth of July than a reading of Walter Isaacson’s thin volume “The Greatest Sentence Ever Written.” Isaacson is an influential public scholar and ...

Perhaps the most famous example of a founding-era Black American wielding the words of the Declaration as a promise to be ...

Historian and journalist Walter Isaacson writes that the Declaration's second sentence 'defines an enduring mission.' ...

It still continues because the flame of liberty and independence still burns in the heart of every American patriot.” With ...