Thomas Jefferson deleted key passages in the Declaration of Independence that historian Holly Brewer says reveal as much as ...

Governing principles came in 1789 with the U.S. Constitution, which did not mention God. In 1791, states then ratified the ...

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It doesn't matter what the founders intended in the Declaration of Independence, the Rev. Byron Williams argues. It's all in ...

The American Revolution is one of the world’s greatest stories and a fulcrum moment in human history, overturning the iron ...

PHILADELPHIA – Written by Thomas Jefferson, adopted on July 4, an international symbol of liberty. But how much do you really know about the Declaration of Independence? “The Declaration is a process, ...

In the colonial era, such a concept of civic friendship and equality was inherent in the practice of local representation.

Behind the eleven-minute speech that founded Israel sits a 31-year-old lawyer nobody remembers, a frantic all-night edit, and ...

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

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

Exeter’s American Independence Center goes beyond the Revolution, with immersive exhibits on rights, democracy and the living ...