The New York Public Library has one of Thomas Jefferson's handwritten copies of the Declaration of Independence in its collection. Jonathan Blanc / New York Public Library A few days after the ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

As part of the lead up to the nation's 250th birthday (semiquincentennial), famed Louisiana author Walter Isaacson is ...

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

Until the founding of the United States of America, the nations of the West did not have to set forth the reasons for their existence and the basis of their authority. Land and blood established the ...

On July 4, 1776, the United States declared its independence from Great Britain. The nation's founding document is fittingly named the Declaration of Independence, and it outlines how the then-13 ...

Mr. Purdum is a former White House correspondent and Los Angeles bureau chief for The Times. Last week, The Atlantic reported that President Trump wants to display the Declaration of Independence — ...