(The Conversation) – Editor’s note: Americans may think they know a lot about the Declaration of Independence, but many of those ideas are elitist and wrong, as historian Woody Holton explains.

It's that time of year when we celebrate our Declaration ... from discussing independence. Guelzo: But as the conflict wore on through 1775 and 1776, resistance to the idea of independence ...

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 ...

Trump’s plan is nothing less than a second Declaration of Independence for the American ... Trump has been vocal in his preference for “one big, beautiful bill,” which U.S. Speaker of ...