Bid to bring historical treasures from birth of US to Belfast for exhibition

Gillian Doherty, a senior archivist at the Public Record Office (PRONI) in Belfast, recently travelled to Washington and ...
The White House

America 250: Presidential Message on the Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation

On 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed the legendary Emancipation Proclamation—one of the most significant documents in human history and a ...

How the timber rattlesnake became a symbol of American independence

American colonies declaring their independence from Great Britain. One of the most enduring symbols of those “times that try ...
Opinion

DHS Says REAL ID, Which DHS Certifies, Is Too Unreliable To Confirm U.S. Citizenship

But that's what the federal government has accomplished with the REAL ID, which the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) now considers unreliable, even though getting one requires providing proof of ...
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

OPINION | PHILIP MARTIN: Walter Isaacson on the Declaration of Independence and the 26 Words That Defined America

Author Walter Isaacson is drawn to minds that bend the world. He writes about men who catch lightning, who bottle reason, who turn math into light and light into money. He likes people whose thoughts ...
The Atlantic

The Ideal That Underlies the Declaration of Independence

When America’s Founders wrote the declaration that gave birth to the new nation, they began by saying that “a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes.” ...
The Washington Post

Jefferson’s paradox: How one of the largest slaveholders penned the words “All men are created equal”

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. On May 14, 1776, after eight days traveling across Virginia, Maryland and ...
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No Kings protest in Waxhaw, N.C.: Protester talks about why she brought a copy of the Declaration of Independence

From the No Kings protest in Waxhaw, N.C. on Oct. 18, 2025: a woman talks about why she brought a copy of the Declaration of Independence. Hegseth’s Pentagon Shake-Up Draws Backlash Milei’s Clear-Cut ...
MassLive

Our Declaration of Independence had first say on ‘no kings’ (Viewpoint)

Views expressed here represent those of the author and not necessarily of MassLive or The Republican. Readers are invited to share their opinions by emailing to [email protected]. As an historian I ...
The Atlantic

What the Founders Would Say Now

When the American republic was founded, the Earth was no more than 75,000 years old. No contemporary thinker imagined it could possibly be older. Thus Thomas Jefferson was confident that woolly ...
The New York Times

They Don’t Want to Live in Lincoln’s America

Although it has long since entered the pantheon of American rhetoric as one of our nation’s great orations, there was a time, however brief, when the Gettysburg Address had its critics. The ...
Smithsonian Magazine

See Thomas Jefferson’s Handwritten Copy of the Declaration of Independence

The New York Public Library has one of Thomas Jefferson's handwritten copies of the Declaration of Independence in its collection. Jonathan Blanc / New York Public Library A few days after the ...