On July 2, 1776, the Second Continental Congress voted unanimously to declare independence from Great Britain.

The American Revolution began with taxes, political exclusion and rising tension between Britain and its colonies, but it ...

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 ...

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Most people don’t look at the Declaration of Independence and think, “What if we took words away?” But UCLA scholar Johanna Drucker did just that, and the result is a striking new way to read one of ...

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 ...

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See more of our coverage in your search results. Make New York Post a Preferred Source The summer of 1776 was a dark time for the Americans. When the signers of the Declaration of Independence pledged ...