By Greg Toppo for The 74 Among longtime history teacher Karalee Wong Nakatsuka’s most prized possessions are two nearly identical T-shirts with very different meanings. One comes from Philadelphia’s ...

I frequently answer constitutional questions from individuals who want to know more about the relationship between the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. Most of them understand that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A historian explains how the Declaration of Independence continues to shape modern government and political thought. Olivia ...

It’s poetry, philosophy and polemic, all in a little more than 1,300 words and all represented in its second and most famous ...

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 ...

WEST CHESTER — As the U.S. prepares to celebrate the 250th anniversary of its Declaration of Independence in 2026, the Dinniman Together Fund at West Chester University is coordinating a series of ...

The true radicalism of the American Revolution, as the legendary historian Gordon S. Wood wrote many years ago, was in ...

Government is not the parent, but the child of the American people, Timothy Sandefur says, and should not impede liberty.

They have a point. Jefferson enslaved people. Many others who signed the Declaration denied rights to various minority groups ...

Ordinary colonists, the farmers, churchgoers, local leaders, pushed back against injustice by the British Crown.

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

A local historian will discuss the Declaration of Independence at a June 18 lecture in West Hartford, with tickets still ...