Ahead of the America 250 celebration, TN attorney Paul Summers begins a public civics study, starting with a look at the ...

As America turns 250, we trace the triumphs, contradictions and arguments that shaped the world’s first liberal republic And ...

On September 2, 1945, in a grassy field in Hanoi known as Ba Dinh Square, a fifty-five-year-old man wearing a worn khaki tunic and white rubber sandals gave the speech that launched the Vietnam War.

The Declaration of Independence is America's most prized possession, and with Fourth of July right around the corner, it's a great time to revisit the document and everything that it did for this ...

In a world increasingly defined by its global challenges, the Declaration on Future Generations represents a pivotal moment in international diplomacy. Yoka Brandt, the Permanent Representative of the ...

In the introduction to his 2000 biography of John Hancock, historian Harlow Giles Unger noted that: Although John Hancock's bold signature on the Declaration of Independence is a national symbol — ...

Evidence shows most of the 47 men in famous 'Declaration of Independence' painting were slaveholders As the nation observes the 400th anniversary of slavery, a Chicago documentary filmmaker tweeted ...

It’s common for Americans on July 4 th to read and discuss the Declaration of Independence, and to reflect on its principles and ideas. Those principles and ideas are often attributed solely—though ...