The Declaration of Independence is a reminder of the ideals on which the United States was founded, and hope the nation lives ...

Here are some warm and thoughtful 4th of July wishes and messages you can share to celebrate this proud occasion with the ...

But ignore that document was precisely what the founding generation did—the Declaration looms large in our political imagination today, but Washington, Jefferson, et al., kept i ...

The Declaration of Independence was signed on August 2, 1776. Many people may assume it was signed on July 4, the day it was officially adopted by Congress, but it took nearly a full month to get ...

Abraham Lincoln said that the Declaration of Independence was “an ‘apple of gold’ to us. The Union, and the Constitution, are the picture of silver, subsequently framed around it.

Douglass and Lincoln alike clearly took inspiration from the Declaration of Independence—America's first Emancipation Proclamation. Both were committed to realizing the promises of 1776, nearly ...

In this Monday, June 17, 2019 photo, shown is Holly Metcalf Kinyon’s 1776 broadside printing of the Declaration of Independence at the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia.

UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #2: (As Abraham Lincoln) If that declaration is not the truth, let us get the statute book in which we find it and tear it out. UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #3: (As character) No, never.

Read today, the Declaration of Independence is a freedom document. It stands for absolute human equality and represents the highest ideals of the American republic. On July 4, we celebrate it as ...

On this Independence Day 160 years later, with jobs again going unfilled, Lincoln’s humane and sensible policy is worth remembering — and emulating. So is what Lincoln had declared at an ...

It’s the American story articulated in Frederick Douglass’s speeches, Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, and Martin Luther King, Jr.‘s 1963 oration at the March on Washington. Education ...