America's 250th birthday marks a milestone of resilience for Native Americans. It's a complex history of displacement and ...
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.
The Declaration of Independence, approved on July 4, 1776, dissolved the American colonies' political ties with Great Britain. It listed grievances against King George III, including quartering troops ...
At the Munich Security Conference two weeks ago, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron underscored a deepening strategic alignment between their countries. Starmer ...
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Two hundred and fifty years after it was written, the Declaration of Independence remains a shared reference point in moments of disagreement and change. Its words have been claimed, challenged, and ...
The Declaration of Independence’s 250th anniversary in 2026 is certain to be a time of national reflection. Americans tend to look to the Constitution to assess whether the nation is living up to its ...
“The Declaration’s Journey” opens with a dramatic juxtaposition: A Windsor chair owned by Thomas Jefferson, principal author of the Declaration of Independence, faces the small, rusting steel bench on ...
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President Trump said Sunday he has signed a disaster declaration for the recent deadly flooding in Texas. “I just signed a Major Disaster Declaration for Kerr County, Texas, to ensure that our Brave ...