The Declaration of Independence details the grievances against the British Crown that led to a new nation.

It was in his letter to Edward Carrington in 1788 that he famously observed, “the natural course of things is for liberty to ...

It still continues because the flame of liberty and independence still burns in the heart of every American patriot.” With ...

The American Revolution stands as a symbol against tyranny. It rejected the British monarch as sovereign while the Declaration of Independence established the new nation’s foundation instead on ...

The Declaration of Independence, with its block of cursive letters scrawled onto parchment, looks like a relic from the distant past. Likewise, you might think the 27 grievances against King George ...

The most famous phrase of the Declaration of Independence contains something of a contradiction, or at least an inconsistency. Happily so for Christians. There is a theological claim hiding there. Not ...

One reason the Declaration of Independence has remained one of history's greatest political documents is its remarkable wording. Thomas Jefferson did not ...

Thanks for joining our study on this 250-plus-one-day. Today, I am honored to write about God’s Word in the Declaration of ...

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 ...

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 ...

[This year, my annual post celebrating the Fourth of July is drawn from a chapter of Our Republican Constitution: Securing the Liberty and Sovereignty of We the People, and from a short essay on the ...