Teaching the Declaration of Independence is about providing the next generation with the tools to maintain our self-governing ...

A few words in the Declaration of Independence, describing Indigenous people as "savages," did lasting damage, professor ...

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Egalitarian interpreters of the Declaration not only empower the centralized state but promote a view of “equality” that ...

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.

Read today, the Declaration of Independence is a freedom document. It stands for absolute human equality and represents the highest ideals of the American republic. On July 4, we celebrate it as much ...

July Fourth marked 249 years since the 13 American colonies rejected a British monarch and embraced freedom. But as we enter the first days of our 250th year on this Earth, it feels like we’re moving ...

As I close out another school year as a US History and Government teacher on the 250th anniversary of the signing of the ...

The Declaration of Independence, along with the preamble of the Constitution and speeches and writings of our statesmen, help define the foundational character and values of America. The Declaration’s ...

The New York Historical thinks it has identified the anonymous printer behind a rare broadside printing of the Declaration ...

On July 8th, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was read to the public for the first time, Independence Hall holds a reenactment annually. The annual reading of the Declaration of Independence took ...