Though since largely forgotten by history, Charles Carroll of Carrollton played a pivotal role in ensuring religious liberty ...

Jefferson wrote it, but Lincoln gave it new meaning. As we mark our founding document's 250th anniversary, whose vision are ...

The founders gave us more than a government. They gave us the right and the responsibility to improve it, writes Bree Fram.

On July 2, 1776, the Second Continental Congress approved the following resolution: That these United Colonies are, and of ...

The semiquincentennial of our nation invites humility and the willingness to be taught to cherish our freedom.

As America turns 250, a retired Jacksonville history professor looks at how Donald Trump compares to the presidents carved ...

America’s enduring struggle over the meaning of “We the People” reveals that the true genius of the American experiment lies ...

Nationally acclaimed journalist and standard-bearer for economic justice calls the Semiquincentennial a defining moral ...

This year, July 5 may be more important than July 4. The fireworks are gone. The bands have packed up. The sky is quiet again ...

Amid concerns over Trenton’s exclusion from critical education funding, Teach For America and Foundation Academy signal ...

With wildfires burning across many Western states, wildland firefighters gathered Sunday to pay tribute to three of their own ...

A few years before World War I, the man who I am named for left a remote corner of the sprawling Russian Empire and hopped a steamship across the Atlantic Ocean. It’s lost in family lore and ...