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Here is the text of The Declaration of Independence, adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776:

By W.D. Ehrhart In 1990, I spent a semester as the Visiting Professor of War and Social Consequences at the University of Massachusetts at Boston.

Our Independence Day Week project honoring each of New Jersey’s five signatories to the Declaration of Independence is just about wrapped up, Save Jerseyans. We’ve met Abraham Clark, John Hart, John Witherspoon, and Francis Hopkinson. Last but not least is arguably the most famous (and controvers

July 4 is a big day as Americans will soon celebrate our nations 247th birthday, honoring a document that changed history: the Declaration of Independence.

COMMENTARY: How the Nation Came to Deliver on Liberty

At the closing banquet celebrating the Constitutional Convention of 1787, a Philadelphia matron rushed to the side of the convention's most senior member and gushed, "O Mister Franklin, what have you gentlemen wrought?" The 81-year-old Franklin is said to have paused, adjusted his glasses and solemnly replied, "A republic madam; if you can keep it"

The first reading of the Declaration of Independence in Boston, July 18, 1776. Tichnor Brothers Collection, Boston Public Library via Digital CommonwealthMany Americans of the founding era denounced government tyranny, celebrated the Declaration of Independence – and favored lockdowns and mass inoculations to combat a viciously contagious disease. Unchecked, smallpox kills more than one in 10 of its victims, leaving many of the rest blind, disfigured and sometimes sterile. Many historians...

Honor the 4th “as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty …” asJohn Adams suggested.

Mrs. Davis is a television show for our cultural moment with its odd alliances.

Stockton Rush, 61, the late Titan submersible explorer, was an American character who stepped straight out of an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel. I know whereof I