July 4, 1776, is an important date in American history that is widely considered the birthday of the United States of America ...

Thomas Jefferson, who owned more than 600 human beings, penned the stirring words justifying a revolution creating what would ...

The committee assigned to draft the Declaration of Independence, from left: Thomas Jefferson, Roger Sherman, Benjamin ...

In the muggy summer of 1776, 56 men met in Philadelphia and pledged their “lives, fortunes, and sacred honor” to America’s ...

Five years ago, on July 4, 2020, the country was in the midst of waves of rioting. The proximate cause, the match that lit the fire, was the death of a black man, a violent ex-convict, on May 25, with ...

There are reasons for pessimism about the future of Jewish life in the United States. But American exceptionalism is real, and can and must be preserved.The post Despite the surge ...

Asked what a world without judicial independence would look like, Justice Clint Bolick offered an ominous answer. "It looks like authoritarianism." ...

Part 2: Writer and activist Mark Charles lays out the anti-Native American sentiments within it, the doctrines and ...

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

Over 200 years after Frederick Douglass questioned “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” in an act of resistance to Independence Day, Black Americans are still grappling with how to celebrate ...

She was a civil rights pioneer who exposed racial injustice and embodied liberty. Her legacy defines the true spirit of July 4 patriotism. | Opinion ...

As Morel and White note, Frederick Douglass saw the Declaration of Independence as a commitment to individual liberty and human dignity that would be fulfilled over time.