These "self-evident' truths endure only if we continue to teach them, examine them and live them together.

As the US celebrates its 250th anniversary, a professor of political thought argues that the focus should be on the pursuit ...

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South Korea released 3,836 pages of records showing bitter disputes, insults and table-pounding clashes in early inter-Korean ...

The compact, accessible book guides readers through the summer of 1776 day by day, highlighting the journey through which the ...

Dairy giant Lactalis has taken Nutri-Score to court. And not just any court but the Court of Justice of the European Union ...

A.O. Scott is a Times critic who writes about literature and ideas. “The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem,” Walt Whitman wrote, but the nation was conceived in prose. Other ...

The New York Historical thinks it has identified the anonymous printer behind a rare broadside printing of the Declaration made soon after July 4, 1776. By Jennifer Schuessler Before the Declaration ...

It’s hard to ignore the seismic shifts brought about by algorithm-driven content. Every time you scroll through your social media feed or check your favorite news app, algorithms are diligently at ...

On the Fourth of July 1776, the congressional delegates in Philadelphia adopted the Declaration of Independence, then ordered that it be widely “proclaimed.” Couriers carried the printed version by ...

In January 1777, Baltimore printer Mary Katharine Goddard published the first copies of the Declaration of Independence that included the signers’ names. By then, the document was already old news.

While the creation of this new entity marks a big step toward avoiding a U.S. ban, as well as easing trade and tech-related tensions between Washington and Beijing, there is still uncertainty ...