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 ...

"It was a real bold document," said Orangetown town historian Mary Cardenas of the Orangetown Resolutions, signed in Rockland ...

Members of the Coalition of the Willing, together with Ukraine and the US, have signed a joint declaration on security guarantees aimed at achieving a stable and lasting peace in Ukraine. Source: the ...

IN THE BEGINNING, no one paid all that much attention to it—and, if they did, they were not particularly impressed. Now scriptural, the Declaration of Independence’s most famous sentence—“We hold ...

Among the highlights is a rare 1776 broadside printing of the Declaration of Independence produced in New Hampshire by ...

Supporters say the text is necessary to understanding the country’s founding documents. But critics say the display violates ...

A bill to place the Ten Commandments in Hoosier public schools cleared its first legislative hurdle Tuesday – but in a scaled ...

King said his dream was ‘deeply rooted in the American dream’ — a dream ‘that one day this nation will rise up and live out ...

Pierre L'Enfant was a lowly French engineer when he met George Washington at Valley Forge. Washington recruited him to make the design for the nation's new capital city. L'Enfant made the plans, but ...

With this plan foiled by needing space for Lincoln's big old head, Borglum intended instead to place a grand room within the ...

Spanberger quoted Patrick Henry, Virginia’s first governor, saying, “‘Let us not split into factions, which must destroy that ...