A new book by historian Emily Sneff records the journeys of the Declaration's first printed copies, tracking their reception in the Thirteen Colonies and overseas ...
Among longtime history teacher Karalee Wong Nakatsuka’s most prized possessions are two nearly identical T-shirts with very ...
That Abraham Lincoln, our most American of presidents, "never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the ...
Its sanction came from a righteous cause, and as Congress began to edit Thomas Jefferson's draft on July 2 and 3, it found ...
Michael Auslin is the author of the forthcoming, on Tuesday, “National Treasure: How the Declaration of Independence Made ...
Amid contention, criticism, and compromise, a divided nation had to present a unified front. It came at a cost.
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The Latinate term for the upcoming 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence is “semiquincentennial,” which doesn’t roll off the tongue easily. (You can use the alternative Latinates ...
As Americans prepare to celebrate another Fourth of July, it is alarming to learn that a Louisiana bill requiring elementary school students to recite a passage from the Declaration of Independence ...
These days, there are a lot of extremely alarming headlines featuring Donald Trump. At first glance, “Trump’s Own Declaration of Independence” doesn’t seem like one of them. The Atlantic headline ...