As America turns 250, we trace the triumphs, contradictions and arguments that shaped the world’s first liberal republic And ...
America’s 250th birthday promises to inflame controversies about the character of the country’s founding — and it key ...
In 1776, the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, proclaiming U.S. independence from Britain. In 1826, in one of history's notable coincidences, former U.S. Presidents John ...
Most people know that the July 4th holiday celebrates the day the United States of America gained its Independence (the day is also referred to as Independence Day). This day was when the Declaration ...
From the Declaration of Independence to the rise of Donald Trump, we assess America’s complicated relationship with its ...
Lauren Milliman peered through the display glass, admiring not just what the words on the parchment said, but also the way they looked, with flowing loops and flourishes. "I'm looking at how pretty it ...
In his annual report on the federal judiciary, the chief justice keyed in on the Declaration of Independence’s resilience ...
Gillian Doherty, a senior archivist at the Public Record Office (PRONI) in Belfast, recently travelled to Washington and ...