LONDON — The Balfour Declaration was short — 67 words — but the letter sent 100 years ago Thursday from Britain's foreign secretary to the head of an influential Jewish banking family has had ...

As we approach Independence Day it behooves us to look again, this time very closely, at the document that initiated the “War of Independence,” inspired by the Constitution that established the United ...

Thomas Jefferson's proposition, in the Declaration of Independence, that "all men are created equal" is a literary technique. Its truth, the proposed "idea" upon which a new nation was to be based, is ...