America’s founding document, including the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, came dangerously close to falling into enemy ...

Among longtime history teacher Karalee Wong Nakatsuka’s most prized possessions are two nearly identical T-shirts with very ...

Two hundred and forty-nine years ago, 56 men met in the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia to commit treason against the most powerful empire on Earth. Representing 13 colonies of that empire, ...

That Abraham Lincoln, our most American of presidents, "never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the ...

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

I'm delighted to report that Michael Auslin, a Distinguished Research Fellow here at Hoover, will be guest-blogging this week ...

A new book by historian Emily Sneff records the journeys of the Declaration's first printed copies, tracking their reception in the Thirteen Colonies and overseas ...

Despite the military disaster at Bladensburg, the Marines gave the men and women of the capital precious time to flee.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for ...

“Declaration of Independence diorama” by Bartlett Frost, copy after John Trumbull. Wax figures and mixed media, 1969. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. Commissioned by the Portrait ...

We are a nation divided and adrift. Our Declaration of Independence can help us refocus on who we are and why we have a ...