Newark Advocate Faith Works columnist Jeff Gill discusses the faith and politics that went into writing the Declaration of Independence.

This article was originally published in The Conversation. The Declaration of Independence was written by wealthy white men, but the impetus for independence came from ordinary Americans. Historian ...

Over the years, I have written a number of posts and articles on the American Revolution and the ideals of the Declaration of Independence.. Some have obvious continuing relevance to such issues as ...

As we approach next year’s 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, we should better understand, be grateful for, and celebrate “The Greatest Sentence Ever Written.” Referring to the ...

The Sioux City Public Museum held the first of three meetings of the Declaration Book Club, which looks at the Declaration of ...

The Latinate term for the upcoming 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence is “semiquincentennial,” which ...

Editor’s note: Americans may think they know a lot about the Declaration of Independence, but many of those ideas are elitist and wrong, as historian Woody Holton explains. His 2021 book Liberty is ...

Imagine the shock of being a king whose word was never disputed or questioned, being kicked to the curb by a bunch of scrub colonists. Someone recently described the Declaration of Independence as the ...

As we near July Fourth, one fascinating story from American history will remain largely untold: how the Declaration of Independence — the document itself — was written, copied and stored. The whole ...

On July 2, 1776, the Second Continental Congress voted unanimously to declare independence from Great Britain. Approximately 20 percent of the members of Congress were opposed to separation, but some ...