Right around the Fourth of July, Americans pay renewed attention to the country’s crucial founding document, the Declaration ...

As is our annual tradition, the editorial board presents the Declaration of Independence in lieu of an editorial to mark the ...

The 8’ x 10‘ oil painting was made in Ohio by Archibald McNeal Willard (1836-1918) for our country’s 100th year anniversary.

As Americans celebrate Independence Day, we remember the men and women who step up to serve our country. I think first of the ...

Independence Day celebrations are usually filled with fireworks, parades and patriotic festivities. So, how did it begin?

South Carolina originally sent five delegates to the Second Continental Congress but only one, Edward Rutledge, remained to ...

Frederick Douglass 1852 speech both extolls principles in the Declaration of Independence (and Constitution) and condemns ...

It's worth revering not just the document itself, but the men of consequence who made American independence a reality.

Pols and pundits will be parsing the 2024 presidential election results for years to come. But exit polling suggests a bold ...

The nation’s capital resided in Pennsylvania before Washington, D.C. However, just where in the state depends on the criteria ...

Yet, higher education has shaped the American experiment from the beginning. Enlightenment ideas studied in 18th-century ...

Two historic copies of the Declaration of Independence are on display temporarily inside the New Hampshire State House, where ...