The Declaration of Independence was a charter and a manifesto, yes, but in essence it was a memo, a hastily drafted, ...

On the Fourth of July 1776, the congressional delegates in Philadelphia adopted the Declaration of Independence, then ordered that it be widely “proclaimed.” Couriers carried the printed version by ...

A few words in the Declaration of Independence, describing Indigenous people as "savages," did lasting damage, professor ...

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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 ...

As I close out another school year as a US History and Government teacher on the 250th anniversary of the signing of the ...

The New York Historical thinks it has identified the anonymous printer behind a rare broadside printing of the Declaration ...

On July 8th, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was read to the public for the first time, Independence Hall holds a reenactment annually. The annual reading of the Declaration of Independence took ...

Although some of America’s Founding Fathers were deists, rather than Christians, the United States owes a debt of gratitude to a Judeo-Christian moral framework that goes beyond mere deism—and the ...

This is the second of a three-part series originally delivered as a lecture May 15 at a conference, “The Declaration of ...

July Fourth marked 249 years since the 13 American colonies rejected a British monarch and embraced freedom. But as we enter the first days of our 250th year on this Earth, it feels like we’re moving ...