Boston 1775

The Continental Congress approved its edited text of the Declaration of Independence in the middle of the day on 4 July 1776. The delega...

Fontana Micucci’s article at Boundary Stones focused my attention on something I’d seen for years without thinking about—there’s a handprin...

Jack Rakove’s comment on the different sorts of grievances in the Declaration of Independence , quoted yesterday , led me to explore more de...

For decades, something about the grievances in the Declaration of Independence has bothered me: They’re not grammatically parallel. I kno...