Revisiting the origins of American democracy. By Jill Lepore. In 1938, if you had a dollar and seventy-two cents, you could ...

July 4th, 2025, marks the 249th anniversary of the ratification of the Declaration of Independence and the formal beginning of the American Revolution. In just under 250 years, the structure of the ...

The founding principles that make this country great and that we celebrate today are exactly what drew the author here from ...

The nation's founding document has been celebrated by leaders across the centuries, and it can still guide us today.

By this Declaration, Americans asserted their unwillingness to be serfs or vassals to an unaccountable ruler, but rather as ...

Personal freedom should always be coupled with the responsibility to fight for the freedoms of everyone else in our ...

This Fourth of July, during a day of parades, baseball and barbecues, somewhere, close by, a marching band surely will be ...

God’s role is often downplayed or ignored in the Declaration, with three godly references that altered history and remain ...

Low literacy. A drop in recreational reading. Students who can’t finish texts. A book industry of falling margins. The ...

His politicization of the name America taps into a long, well, American tradition, as old as the nation itself.