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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A historian explains how the Declaration of Independence continues to shape modern government and political thought. Olivia ...

Ordinary colonists, the farmers, churchgoers, local leaders, pushed back against injustice by the British Crown.

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 ...

The connection between individual liberty and the principles of the Declaration of Independence should be obvious. After all, the most famous passage in the Declaration states that all men have the ...

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 ...

Government is not the parent, but the child of the American people, Timothy Sandefur says, and should not impede liberty.

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 ...

Why is this day different from the past Fourths of July in the eyes of NPR producers? Well frequent listeners of NPR’s Morning Edition know that there has been great, and understandable, concern ...

The only known surviving copy of the Declaration of Independence printed south of Philadelphia is back in Charleston, where a ...

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: ...