[This year, my annual post celebrating the Fourth of July is drawn from a chapter of Our Republican Constitution: Securing the Liberty and Sovereignty of We the People, and from a short essay on the ...

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. Historian Andrew Davenport arrived at Monticello with an extraordinary ...

When Thomas Jefferson was chosen to draft the Declaration of Independence, he had an exceedingly difficult task ahead of him. The 33-year-old planter, who had left law practice just before Britain’s ...

Suffice it to say, America is somewhat undereducated when it comes to civics, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Now is the time to change this ...

July 4 is a red- white- and blue-letter day to recall the Declaration of Independence. Who better to give insights about it than Archbishop Fulton Sheen? As perceptive and prophetic as ever of what ...

Today is synonymous with fireworks, flags, parades and barbecues, but 33 percent of Americans do not plan to celebrate the nation’s 249th birthday. National pride has fallen to record lows, and a 2023 ...

Joseph Postell is associate professor of politics at Hillsdale College and a visiting fellow in the B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies at The Heritage Foundation. He is the author of the ...

Hoosiers don’t have to travel to Washington, D.C. or Philadelphia to see one of the most important artifacts of the American Revolution; starting this month, just one of just 26 surviving copies of ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump sees the appeal of both. Trump jokingly declared himself a sovereign last month, while his advisers distributed AI-generated photos of him wearing a crown and an ermine robe to ...