Thomas Jefferson's proposition, in the Declaration of Independence, that "all men are created equal" is a literary technique. Its truth, the proposed "idea" upon which a new nation was to be based, is ...

Governing principles came in 1789 with the U.S. Constitution, which did not mention God. In 1791, states then ratified the ...

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It doesn't matter what the founders intended in the Declaration of Independence, the Rev. Byron Williams argues. It's all in writing.

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. Historian Andrew Davenport arrived at Monticello with an extraordinary ...

How many times have we heard those words? In 2007, The Washington Post published an article by Gene Weingarten called “Pearls Before Breakfast.” In it, he chronicles an experiment by the newspaper, in ...

A few words in the Declaration of Independence, describing Indigenous people as "savages," did lasting damage, professor ...

Millions of people around the world know the stirring words of the Declaration of Independence announcing that "all men are created equal" and that they have the rights to "Life, Liberty and the ...

On July 8th, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was read to the public for the first time, Independence Hall holds a reenactment annually. The annual reading of the Declaration of Independence took ...

Here are the seven winning essays from the Cambria County America 250 contest, held in conjunction with the ...

July Fourth marked 249 years since the 13 American colonies rejected a British monarch and embraced freedom. But as we enter the first days of our 250th year on this Earth, it feels like we’re moving ...