On July 4, 1776, the 13 colonies claimed their independence from England, an event which eventually led to the formation of the United States. Each year on the fourth of July, also known as ...

The book in question was Locke’s Two Treatises of Government (1689), the political tract that demolished the case for absolute monarchy and helped to set colonial hearts on fire. Indeed ...

Although Jefferson's description of the slave trade was as much an indictment of the colonies as of Britain ... to the Continental Congress on July 1, 1776, both northern and southern slaveholding ...

Guelzo: Well, it was deeper, and wider too, because in May of 1776, a second Continental Congress resolved to authorize the formation of new governments in the colonies that would favor independence.

Granville Sentinel columnist Jeff Gill shares his thoughts on the Declaration of Independence and the Founding Fathers' intentions behind their words.

On July 2, 1776, the Second Continental Congress voted ... The Declaration was necessary for concrete as well as symbolic reasons: the colonies needed foreign aid to keep fighting, but to obtain ...