Editor's note: This is the third in a five-part series of essays on American history by Uyless Black.

You might imagine the Declaration of Independence as a piece of parchment under glass, but in 1776, it was breaking news.

Acts of war and violence Hello Downriver, For 250 years we’ve celebrated the adoption of our Declaration of Independence on ...

Red-headed, spindle-shanked Thomas Jefferson was thirty-three years old when he drafted the Declaration of Independence, in 1776; he was so young and, as it turned out, so long-lived that he had ...

The Declaration of Independence, approved on July 4, 1776, dissolved the American colonies' political ties with Great Britain. It established a foundation for American government based on natural ...

The Rev. Byron Williams argues the Declaration of Independence remains a radical document 250 years later. The Declaration's open-ended language has allowed marginalized groups to seek equal rights.

The Declaration of Independence was first shared through public readings, not signatures. It took time to appear in printed versions. The famous engrossed parchment copy was not signed on a single day ...