The 250th Independence Day in US history is running into some snags, but back in 1976, the country's 200th anniversary ...

Thomas Jefferson was tasked with drafting a wartime document declaring independence. How did it become one of history’s most enduring symbols?

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Before America, nations typically justified their existence through conquest, bloodlines, ethnicity, geography or even the ...

Here are five ways to round out your holiday weekend with these series and channels that show you various sides of American history.

What the Founders set in motion has been tested in ways they never could have foreseen, and yet the ideals on which our nation stands have endured.

But how many California students understand the events that led to the American Revolution, the story of how our nationhood was won, the principles of the Declaration of Independence, or the debates ...

Exploring Ash Center perspectives on the meaning of democracy, democratic participation and citizenship, and how democratic life might evolve over the next 250 years. 2026 marks the 250th anniversary ...

Multiday warnings of extreme heat have landed in New York, Boston and Philadelphia. The sultry weather has pushed east just ...

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary ...

"To prove this," he wrote, "let facts be submitted to a candid world."  In this June 30, 2020, photo, a man walks in front of the Declaration House in Philadelphia, where Thomas Jefferson drafted the ...