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

The author of ‘The Greatest Sentence Ever Written,’ says, ‘Maybe reflecting on the Declaration of Independence and the values of our founders will help lower the temperature 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.

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 ...

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 ...

America celebrates Independence Day on July 4th every year. This date is etched into the nation’s collective memory as the birth of a new republic. Yet, the answer to “When was Declaration of ...

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 — ...

The year 2026 is the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, our foundational document that eloquently ...

“The truths of the Declaration of Independence are not limited by time or place,” John Quincy Adams wrote in 1839. “They belong to the nature of man in every age and every clime. They may be subdued, ...

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 ...