Fronting this display is Magna Carta, represented by an eighteenth-century engraved facsimile of the 1215 document preserved ...
The Latinate term for the upcoming 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence is “semiquincentennial,” which ...
The Declaration of Independence reaffirmed the right to self-determination—and the uniquely American practice of keeping and ...
Richard M. Reinsch II is director of the B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies at The Heritage Foundation and columnist for The Daily Signal. He is also a senior writer for Law & Liberty. If we ...
It was 249 years ago, in 1776, that 13 British colonies in North America declared their independence. In recent years many of the men who became known as the Founding Fathers have come under disrepute ...
On Independence Day, we present the Declaration of Independence. 2025 marks 249 years since the United States’ founding document was adopted by the delegates to the Second Continental Congress in ...
EDITOR’S NOTE: On this, the anniversary of our nation’s independence, we think it is important to publish these words that our forefathers inked 249 years ago in declaration of our fledgling nation’s ...
The Declaration of Independence confidently announces that America is now a separate nation from Britain and declares the new nation’s purpose, making it essential to our Founding. To understand and ...
The Declaration of Independence, the most consequential and perhaps most heroic challenge to authority in human annals, reached the ear of King George III in London on this day in history, August 10, ...
Most people know that the July 4th holiday celebrates the day the United States of America gained its Independence (the day is also referred to as Independence Day). This day was when the Declaration ...
The Berks County Liberty Bell was first rung 247 years ago. Its ring on July 8, 1776 announced the birth of the United States of America, calling for local residents to gather for a reading of the ...
In June of 1776, the Continental Congress formed a five-person committee consisting of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman and Robert R. Livingston to draft a declaration of ...