Women used the Declaration’s language to demand rights they were denied. Women were not the intended audience of the Declaration of Independence, but they refused to treat it as a finished document.

David H. Babcock is retired after 32 years of service to the state of Iowa at the Iowa State Penitentiary. The Declaration of Independence provided the theoretical foundation of our Constitution and ...

It’s no surprise that 56 men — but no women — penned their names on the Declaration of Independence at a time when women had few rights and no standing in society, especially in government and ...

It’s no surprise that 56 men – but no women – penned their names on the Declaration of Independence at a time when women had few rights and no standing in society, especially in government and ...

The League of Women Voters of Wheaton is sponsoring “Declaration 1776: The Big Bang of Modern Democracy,” a traveling panel exhibition from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, as our ...

The League of Women Voters of Wheaton is proud to sponsor “Declaration 1776: The Big Bang of Modern Democracy,” a traveling panel exhibition from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, as ...

Among longtime history teacher Karalee Wong Nakatsuka’s most prized possessions are two nearly identical T-shirts with very ...