You might imagine the Declaration of Independence as a piece of parchment under glass, but in 1776, it was breaking news.

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 ...

It’s poetry, philosophy and polemic, all in a little more than 1,300 words and all represented in its second and most famous ...