Declaration of Independence: The greatest public affairs campaign in American history

As America celebrates its 250th birthday, we should reflect on the eternal wisdom of the Founding Fathers, who put words to ...
The New Yorker

Was the Declaration of Independence Better Before the Edits?

Red-headed, spindle-shanked Thomas Jefferson was thirty-three years old when he drafted the Declaration of Independence, in 1776; he was so young and, as it turned out, so long-lived that he had ...