A few words in the Declaration of Independence, describing Indigenous people as "savages," did lasting damage, professor ...

The American Philosophical Society Museum's new exhibit includes 19 printed copies of the Declaration, including an early ...

Few lines are more central to that inquiry than the ringbolt of Thomas Jefferson’s second sentence: “all men are created ...

First Reading is a Canadian politics newsletter curated by the National Post’s own Tristin Hopper. To get an early version ...

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Financed through a mix of public and private money and enabled in no small part by the backroom maneuvering of the ...

As America marks its 250th anniversary, “The American Book of Fables” offers something lasting: the chance to remember and to ...

The Sykes-Picot Agreement between Britain and France in 1916 is deeply embedded in Arab political consciousness as a symbol ...

Looking back at a New York Times magazine story to examine what responsible coverage of sex trafficking looks like—and what ...

Most people who receive a $2 bill tuck it away in a drawer, assuming it's too unusual to spend and too ordinary to be worth ...

Livermore's Bankhead Theater is celebrating America's 250th birthday with a new art exhibit in which artists explore and interpret the people, landscapes, traditions, history and cultural moments that ...

You might imagine the Declaration of Independence as a piece of parchment under glass, but in 1776, it was breaking news.