America’s founding document started a financial revolution that reverberated around the world.

Brigham Young University Professor Tyson Reeder believes the founding fathers hoped to create a great nation when they signed ...

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

On July 4, 1776, 250 years ago, the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence. This document wasn’t merely ...

From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling throughout their ...

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

The following text is a transcription of the Stone Engraving of the parchment Declaration of Independence (the document on display in the Rotunda at the ...

This is the final essay in a series on the Declaration of Independence, in recognition of its 250th anniversary. Most of the ...

But the events of 1776 are harder for Boston to claim. After the British evacuated these parts on March 17, the action moved ...