Governing principles came in 1789 with the U.S. Constitution, which did not mention God. In 1791, states then ratified the ...
A few words in the Declaration of Independence, describing Indigenous people as "savages," did lasting damage, professor ...
Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. Historian Andrew Davenport arrived at Monticello with an extraordinary ...
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The connection between individual liberty and the principles of the Declaration of Independence should be obvious. After all, the most famous passage in the Declaration states that all men have the ...
How many times have we heard those words? In 2007, The Washington Post published an article by Gene Weingarten called “Pearls Before Breakfast.” In it, he chronicles an experiment by the newspaper, in ...
It doesn't matter what the founders intended in the Declaration of Independence, the Rev. Byron Williams argues. It's all in writing.
The American Revolution is one of the world’s greatest stories and a fulcrum moment in human history, overturning the iron ...
This is the second of a three-part series originally delivered as a lecture May 15 at a conference, “The Declaration of ...
Public schools in several U.S. states are required to teach students about the Declaration of Independence, contrary to a video claim that the U.S. public education system does not teach the document ...