As a people, we feel lost. Our political life is full of division and animosity. Our society struggles to find its sense of ...

America’s founding document, including the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, came dangerously close to falling into enemy ...

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 ...

But if Jefferson and his colleagues on the Committee of Five avoided specifying what a national government should look like, ...

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 ...

There are many reasons one might come to love one’s country. It first appears in the connection to place, a bond to a physical location, usually associated with where one grew up. It extends from ...

Independence Day, also known as the Fourth of July, marks the birth of the United States as an independent nation. On this day in 1776, the Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lauren Milliman peered through the display glass, admiring not just what the words on the parchment said, but also the way they ...

The Charleston Museum will display an original copy of the Declaration of Independence this summer. According to the museum, ...