Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A reproduction of the Declaration of Independence. Photo: Second Continental Congress via William Stone / Wikimedia Commons / ...

It still continues because the flame of liberty and independence still burns in the heart of every American patriot.” With that in mind, it’s worth looking at the Declaration of Independence, signed ...

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 ...

The Fourth of July has passed, but that doesn’t mean the America 250 celebrations are over, there are other milestones in our nation’s founding that will be recognized throughout the year.

It's the 249th birthday of the United States. And as Americans begin to prepare for our nation's grand semiquincentennial celebration next year, it is worth reengaging with the document whose ...

Editor’s note: Americans may think they know a lot about the Declaration of Independence, but many of those ideas are elitist and wrong, as historian Woody Holton explains. His 2021 book Liberty is ...

Presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson shaped the course of the United States of America, but they became bitter political opponents. They both died on July 4, 1826.

There is no time when the Declaration of Independence‘s true meaning is not worthy of deep reflection. But certainly this Independence Day, which marks the beginning of a year of celebrating the 250th ...

The Supreme Court on June 30, 2026, declared that universal birthright citizenship is protected by the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, meaning that nearly all babies ...

In his book, Inventing America, the liberal scholar Garry Wills argued that the Declaration owed much to previous Anglo-American history. This is correct. English parliamentary bills originated as ...

The Declaration is sometimes championed by right-libertarians and left-liberals alike as a paean to individualism and a refutation of communitarianism of any kind. As one X user put it on Thursday: ...