One of the nation’s establishing documents calls Indigenous people “merciless Indian savages.” Today, many say the phrase has ...

From Roman freedom to Viking happiness, the iconic words in the Declaration of Independence reveal thousands of years of ...

Most importantly, perhaps, we need to remember that the Declaration of Independence was proclaimed and signed by members of ...

Perhaps the most famous example of a founding-era Black American wielding the words of the Declaration as a promise to be ...

On July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress adopted a document introducing a new nation to the world, composed of 13 “free and ...

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of ...

In the broadcast reading of the Declaration of Independence we inadvertently dropped two words: establish commerce. We muse about what would be different if those words had not been in the document.

The US Declaration of Independence frames Indigenous resistance as aggression and colonial violence as self-defense.

Yet when you go back to the founding document that defines the country’s philosophical break with Britain, the Declaration of Independence, something interesting appears. The word freedom is not there ...

Newberry Library was among more than 1,000 sites participating in the “Sharing the Spirit of America” program on Wednesday.

Residents gathered at West Bonner Library District to take part in a synchronized reading of the Declaration of Independence, ...

On July 6, 1776, the Pennsylvania Evening Post printed the first newspaper version of the Declaration as Hancock sent the words to Washington.