The declaration made fighting for human equality and the natural rights of all the foundation of American patriotism.

It doesn't matter what the founders intended in the Declaration of Independence, the Rev. Byron Williams argues. It's all in writing.

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

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

Thomas Jefferson's original draft of the Declaration of Independence included clauses condemning the slave trade. Historian Holly Brewer's research suggests the founders believed "all men are created ...

Thomas Jefferson deleted key passages in the Declaration of Independence that historian Holly Brewer says reveal as much as what he left.