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 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 ...

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 ...

“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, ...

The official declaration of America’s independence from Britain may be dated July 4, 1776, but the story of the Thomas Jefferson's hallowed document really begins two weeks later. On July 19, the ...