Walter Isaacson, the former media executive who has written a shelfful of magisterial biographies on Benjamin Franklin and ...

As the Declaration of Independence approaches its 250th anniversary, Walter Isaacson shifts his focus from inventors to the profound impact of a singular line that has shaped a nation and continues to ...

On July 4, 1776, 56 men signed a document declaring 13 British colonies as one United States of America. By this charter, they formed a new country … one free from a distant king's rule. The ...

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: On this, the anniversary of our nation’s independence, we think it is important to publish these words that our forefathers inked 249 years ago in declaration of our fledgling nation’s ...

They are, perhaps, the most famous 1,322 words ever strung together. And in assembling them, Thomas Jefferson accomplished far more than simply announcing to the world that the American colonies were ...

If John Adams' first guess had been correct, the fireworks and related celebrations to commemorate Independence Day would have been held on Saturday, and today, we'd be trudging back to work after a ...

Author Walter Isaacson is drawn to minds that bend the world. He writes about men who catch lightning, who bottle reason, who ...

However, instead of looking ahead, we are looking back at the start of it all. On July 4, 1776, 56 men signed a document declaring 13 British colonies as one United States of America. This year, ...