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 ...

CENTER CITY -- America's Birthday was celebrated this past Thursday, but the date July 8th also holds a significant moment in time. The First Public reading of the Declaration of Independence was July ...

AMHERST, Mass. (WWLP) – Local youth activists are advocating for change in western Massachusetts with a reading of a rewritten Declaration of Independence. Activists in the community have come ...

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 ...

Here's some fun news for the Fourth of July: America might be reading an important passage of the Declaration of Independence all wrong. A scholar's argument that an authoritative transcription of the ...

Author Walter Isaacson is drawn to minds that bend the world. He writes about men who catch lightning, who bottle reason, who turn math into light and light into money. He likes people whose thoughts ...

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. Historian Andrew Davenport arrived at Monticello with an extraordinary ...

Part I. Origins -- Night teaching -- Patrimony -- Loving democracy -- Animating the Declaration -- Part II. Who wrote the Declaration of Independence? -- The writer -- The politicos -- The Committee - ...

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. On May 14, 1776, after eight days traveling across Virginia, Maryland and ...

Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., faced widespread backlash online after he warned against the idea of God-given rights used in the Declaration of Independence. "The notion that rights don’t come from laws and ...