And Lincoln explained this, and he said it's not ... That much, at the time of the Declaration of Independence, they were able to sweep away which was a major step toward equality.

Of all his writings, Thomas Jefferson's most famous and far-reaching was undoubtedly his draft of the Declaration of Independence. Although the issue of slavery was widely debated -- both the ...

Regular readers of this column may remember my interest in the so-called Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence dated May 20 ...

President Donald Trump and Republican majorities in both Houses, began working to pass an agenda through Congress that will be sweeping in both its scope and impact.

By D.G. Martin Regular readers of this column may remember my interest in the so-called Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence dated May 20, 1775, a date enshrined on North Carolina’s state flag. In ...

A July 1776 broadside of the Declaration of Independence is on offer at Sotheby’s, where it is estimated at $2 to $4 million. It comes to auction less than four years after it sold at Christie ...

a signer of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. "This is the tomb of John Rutledge," said Richard Habersham of the Phillips Community Association. He explained that the ...

The Declaration of Independence, along with the preamble ... They were wrong, as John Hale and Abraham Lincoln explained. Lincoln saw that the line “all men are created equal” had “no ...