It's crucial today to acknowledge that for 249 years thousands of Americans have fought to protect the ideas of the American ...

As the 249th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence loomed, Congress passed a bill that steals from the poor, hungry and sick to reward the wealthy, enslave generations to unsustainable debt ...

Multilingual means being able to speak more than two languages. John Quincy Adams leads the pack, having been able to speak 9 ...

The text says that governments are human constructions. The legitimacy of governments depends upon democratic consent, not ...

Everyone knows the famous names at the bottom of the Declaration of Independence, from John Hancock’s famous oversized signature to author Thomas Jefferson and John Adams.

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In 1865, Congress passes the 13th Amendment. The war ends, Lincoln is assassinated and the states ratify the amendment later ...

Poplar Forest's main event was a reenactor playing America's third president and a Virginia native, Thomas Jefferson.

The Declaration of Independence is full of promise and a few mysteries. A rare copy of it ended up at The Henry Ford Museum ...

News of the Declaration of Independence reached Great Britain in August 1776 and ignited a media frenzy, according to the Jack Miller Center, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit dedicated to teaching about ...

At Monticello, we talked to Ken Burns, who was giving a preview of his upcoming PBS documentary on the American Revolution.

As America begins its 250th year, it is fitting to draw attention to the great people and ideas that made it possible. Neither the Declaration of Independence of 1776 nor the Constitution of 1787 ...