We asked a group of Central Floridians to write letters to America’s Founding Fathers to tell them about the nation at 250 ...

Thomas Jefferson was tasked with drafting a wartime document declaring independence. How did it become one of history’s most enduring symbols?

Editor: My mother’s ancestors were here at the time of the Revolution; my father’s ancestors came over from Germany in the late 1800s. I carry the blood of both colonists and of immigrants. At this ...

I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival.” — John Adams ...

By Christopher Flannery Imprimis/Hillsdale College How should we think about the American Revolution on the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of ...

Since the writing of The Declaration of Independence 250 years ago, the document has been an aspirational guide for our ...

Sunlight and abuse have taken a toll on the document, encased in bulletproof glass. But the Trump administration “hasn’t put ...

Washington dictated and signed the letter in October 1781 to formally accept the British surrender at Yorktown, writing of his “ardent desire to spare the further effusion of blood” ...

Historian and journalist Walter Isaacson writes that the Declaration's second sentence 'defines an enduring mission.' ...

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America was forged by muskets and ink, and it is the ink that has enabled the freedom we celebrate today. That freedom was ...

AI cannot pledge its own life, fortune, reputation, or honor in defense of an idea, like the signers of the Declaration of ...