New Library of Congress exhibit features rare draft of Declaration of Independence

A rare draft of the Declaration of Independence, now on display at the Library of Congress, was written by Thomas Jefferson ...

This is the heart and soul of the Declaration of Independence | Opinion

The soul of the Declaration lives in the first two paragraphs, and mostly in two remarkable sentences where Thomas Jefferson ...

Adams and Jefferson forged in independence: op-ed from Alabama Justice Will Sellers

In death, they remind future generations that shared principles can endure even the deepest political divisions.
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Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence: 250 Years of trying to fulfill the promise

Content with his intellectual, architectural and other pursuits at home in Monticello, Thomas Jefferson had no intention of becoming a political leader during the founding of America.
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Rare Declaration of Independence copy on Display at NYPL

Visitors with tickets can view the manuscript which is handwritten by Thomas Jefferson.

Declaration of Independence sets 'America apart from everybody else'

Oakland County Circuit Judge Michael Warren explains why the Declaration of Independence makes the USA so unique in world ...

The Declaration of Independence was a call for freedom — and national unity

When the signers of the Declaration of Independence pledged to each other their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor ...
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Democracy and the Declaration of Independence

“The principles proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence were always more important than a single man,” writes James Kloppenberg.
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I study the Declaration of Independence, and here’s why the colonists’ grievances are surprisingly relevant, 250 years later

The Declaration of Independence, with its block of cursive letters scrawled onto parchment, looks like a relic from the distant past. Likewise, you might think the 27 grievances against King George ...