[This year, my annual post celebrating the Fourth of July is drawn from a chapter of Our Republican Constitution: Securing the Liberty and Sovereignty of We the People, and from a short essay on the ...

As a people, we feel lost. Our political life is full of division and animosity. Our society struggles to find its sense of ...

The famous second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence likely drew its phrasing from a sermon delivered in the early ...

Editor’s note: Americans may think they know a lot about the Declaration of Independence, but many of those ideas are elitist and wrong, as historian Woody Holton explains. His 2021 book Liberty is ...

WEST CHESTER — As the U.S. prepares to celebrate the 250th anniversary of its Declaration of Independence in 2026, the Dinniman Together Fund at West Chester University is coordinating a series of ...

There are many reasons one might come to love one’s country. It first appears in the connection to place, a bond to a physical location, usually associated with where one grew up. It extends from ...

It’s the 249th birthday of the United States. And as Americans begin to prepare for our nation’s grand semiquincentennial celebration next year, it is worth reengaging with the document whose ...

Amid contention, criticism, and compromise, a divided nation had to present a unified front. It came at a cost.

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.

We ask visitors on the National Mall about independence and they tell us about the freedoms that are the most important to them. The Declaration: What Does Independence Mean To You? Editor's note on ...

The Declaration is sometimes championed by right-libertarians and left-liberals alike as a paean to individualism and a refutation of communitarianism of any kind. As one X user put it on Thursday: ...