Adom Getachew ▪ Summer 2026 NAACP silent protest parade in New York City in 1917 (Underwood & Underwood, Library of Congress) On September 2, 1945, as the anticolonial struggle spread across ...

Walking into The American Philosophical Society Museum’s dimly-lit first-floor gallery, you are confronted by an eight foot square map of North America, purchased by Benjamin Franklin and hung in ...

In January 1777, Baltimore printer Mary Katharine Goddard published the first copies of the Declaration of Independence that included the signers’ names. By then, the document was already old news.

An unlikely band of prominent business, religious, government and academic leaders have set aside their political differences and signed on to a new declaration of human rights for the AI age.

Long before the birth of the United States, Native nations were leading through councils, consensus, and community. Their ideas of repres ... What didn’t you learn in history class about the ...

President Donald Trump resisted the idea of making a declaration of war against Venezuelan drug cartels being targeted by U.S. military strikes, telling reporters Thursday “we’re gonna kill them” as ...

“The Declaration’s Journey” opens with a dramatic juxtaposition: A Windsor chair owned by Thomas Jefferson, principal author of the Declaration of Independence, faces the small, rusting steel bench on ...

We, the undersigned, welcome the truly historic commitment and implementation by all parties to the Trump Peace Agreement, ending more than two years of profound suffering and loss — opening a new ...

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 ...

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In his seven months back in office, President Trump has declared nine national emergencies, plus a “crime emergency” in Washington. Those emergency declarations have been used to justify hundreds of ...

July Fourth marked 249 years since the 13 American colonies rejected a British monarch and embraced freedom. But as we enter the first days of our 250th year on this Earth, it feels like we’re moving ...