The rare document will be on view for just three days at the New York Public Library next year in celebration of America's ...

In addition to being known as the Father of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson was a lawyer, philosopher and diplomat. He served in numerous political roles, including governor of ...

Tim Kaine criticized the founding principle of God-given rights as troubling during a Senate hearing, prompting Ted Cruz and ...

Senator Timothy “Tim” Kaine, a Democrat of Virginia, is calling “extremely troubling” the assertion that rights come from ...

Many years ago a reader, Wallace Hooper, wrote to the Chronicle publisher with this request: “To celebrate this and every July Fourth, print the entire text of the Declaration of Independence.” In ...

BEDFORD COUNTY, Va. (WSET) — What better place to celebrate the signing of the Declaration of Independence than at Thomas Jefferson's retreat home? Poplar Forest is hosting its Independence Day ...

FOREST, Va. (WSET) — Poplar Forest took families back centuries to celebrate America's independence this July 4. All day Friday, Poplar Forest hosted its Independence Day Celebration for families to ...

Whereas Tim Kaine hears someone say our rights come from God and thinks of the writings and thought of, say, the Aytollah Khomeini, the philosophical basis of the idea is found in the work of John ...

A few days after the Continental Congress officially adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, Thomas Jefferson sat down and started writing. The 33-year-old Virginia statesman dashed ...