As Americans across the nation prepare to celebrate the 249th anniversary of their independence on July 4, 2025, the Fourth ...

July 4, 1776, is an important date in American history that is widely considered the birthday of the United States of America ...

Thomas Jefferson, who owned more than 600 human beings, penned the stirring words justifying a revolution creating what would ...

The committee assigned to draft the Declaration of Independence, from left: Thomas Jefferson, Roger Sherman, Benjamin ...

Editor's note: In honor of Independence Day — this year, we mark 249 years since the United States parted with Great Britain ...

In the muggy summer of 1776, 56 men met in Philadelphia and pledged their “lives, fortunes, and sacred honor” to America’s ...

There are reasons for pessimism about the future of Jewish life in the United States. But American exceptionalism is real, and can and must be preserved.The post Despite the surge ...

Asked what a world without judicial independence would look like, Justice Clint Bolick offered an ominous answer. "It looks like authoritarianism." ...

Part 2: Writer and activist Mark Charles lays out the anti-Native American sentiments within it, the doctrines and ...

It's worth revering not just the document itself, but the men of consequence who made American independence a reality.

Over 200 years after Frederick Douglass questioned “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” in an act of resistance to Independence Day, Black Americans are still grappling with how to celebrate ...