Amid contention, criticism, and compromise, a divided nation had to present a unified front. It came at a cost.
Our country is in the midst of an important celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, but many Americans are unaware that we did not actually have ...
How many times have we heard those words? In 2007, The Washington Post published an article by Gene Weingarten called “Pearls Before Breakfast.” In it, he chronicles an experiment by the newspaper, in ...
A few words in the Declaration of Independence, describing Indigenous people as "savages," did lasting damage, professor ...
They launched a bold experiment to create a new nation where the government answered to the people, not the other way around. The experiment was built on a few core principles — human dignity, the ...
Ordinary colonists, the farmers, churchgoers, local leaders, pushed back against injustice by the British Crown.
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