The Washington Post

How the Declaration of Independence inspired the world despite Jefferson’s contradictions on slavery

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. Historian Andrew Davenport arrived at Monticello with an extraordinary ...
The Daily Signal

Why the Declaration of Independence Still Matters

How many times have we heard those words? In 2007, The Washington Post published an article by Gene Weingarten called “Pearls Before Breakfast.” In it, he chronicles an experiment by the newspaper, in ...
The Australian

Declaration of Independence: Nobody wanted to write it. The world called it a revolution

The Declaration of Independence with its earnest profession that “all men are created equal” and which held that governments could only secure their authority “from the consent of the governed”, ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The Paradox of the Declaration of Independence

The Smithsonian’s secretary offers insight into one of the nation’s most important documents Lonnie G. Bunch III Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence on this portable desk of his own ...