I can’t think of a more fitting celebration of this Fourth of July than a reading of Walter Isaacson’s thin volume “The Greatest Sentence Ever Written.” Isaacson is an influential public scholar and ...
On the Fourth of July 1776, the congressional delegates in Philadelphia adopted the Declaration of Independence, then ordered ...
From Roman freedom to Viking happiness, the iconic words in the Declaration of Independence reveal thousands of years of ...
This is the final essay in a series on the Declaration of Independence, in recognition of its 250th anniversary. Most of the ...
It still continues because the flame of liberty and independence still burns in the heart of every American patriot.” With ...
On July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress adopted a document introducing a new nation to the world, composed of 13 “free and ...
A few words in the Declaration of Independence, describing Indigenous people as "savages," did lasting damage, professor ...
One sparks a revolution, while the other structures a nation. Do you know the difference between the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution? Packed with history and visionary ideas (and even ...
A John Carter Brown Library exhibition explores events and milestones of 1776, from the signing of the Declaration of ...
This document contains the signatures of John Hancock, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin. So exactly how many ...
I frequently answer constitutional questions from individuals who want to know more about the relationship between the ...