A few words in the Declaration of Independence, describing Indigenous people as "savages," did lasting damage, professor ...

The Declaration of Independence with its earnest profession that “all men are created equal” and which held that governments could only secure their authority “from the consent of the governed”, ...

It’s common for Americans on July 4 th to read and discuss the Declaration of Independence, and to reflect on its principles and ideas. Those principles and ideas are often attributed solely—though ...

Public schools in several U.S. states are required to teach students about the Declaration of Independence, contrary to a video claim that the U.S. public education system does not teach the document ...

[This post is excerpted from the new book, National Treasure: How the Declaration of Independence Made America (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster).] That Abraham Lincoln, our most American of ...