This article was originally published in The Conversation. The Declaration of Independence was written by wealthy white men, but the impetus for independence came from ordinary Americans. Historian ...

The America’s Potluck website even features a downloadable bingo card with prompts like “Found someone who’s been to a national park,” and “Swapped a recipe or a cooking shortcut.” Get five in a row ...

Twenty community members solemnly, and with much emotion, read the document which was first read publicly on July 1, ...

Over the years, I have written a number of posts and articles on the American Revolution and the ideals of the Declaration of Independence.. Some have obvious continuing relevance to such issues as ...

Newark Advocate Faith Works columnist Jeff Gill discusses the faith and politics that went into writing the Declaration of ...

Editor’s note: Americans may think they know a lot about the Declaration of Independence, but many of those ideas are elitist and wrong, as historian Woody Holton explains. His 2021 book Liberty is ...

It was the most important writing assignment in world history. In May of 1776, John Adams, an accomplished draftsman who penned the state Constitution of Massachusetts (still the world's oldest), ...

Imagine the shock of being a king whose word was never disputed or questioned, being kicked to the curb by a bunch of scrub colonists. Someone recently described the Declaration of Independence as the ...

The Latinate term for the upcoming 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence is “semiquincentennial,” which doesn’t roll off the tongue easily. (You can use the alternative Latinates ...

Humans have produced some great sentences over the years, such as this one from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby,” “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the ...

Every year, for as long as I can recall, my family has had a Fourth of July party. The highlight is always a public reading of the Declaration of Independence, with each guest reading a portion of ...

SIOUX CITY (KTIV) - People across the United States are beginning to celebrate the country’s 250th birthday, including in Siouxland. The Sioux City Public Museum held the first of three meetings of ...