Teaching the Declaration of Independence is about providing the next generation with the tools to maintain our self-governing ...

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

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As I close out another school year as a US History and Government teacher on the 250th anniversary of the signing of the ...

Read today, the Declaration of Independence is a freedom document. It stands for absolute human equality and represents the highest ideals of the American republic. On July 4, we celebrate it as much ...

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 ...

[This post is excerpted from the new book, National Treasure: How the Declaration of Independence Made America (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster).] That Abraham Lincoln, our most American of ...

The New York Historical thinks it has identified the anonymous printer behind a rare broadside printing of the Declaration ...

The Declaration of Independence with its earnest profession that “all men are created equal” and which held that governments could only secure their authority “from the consent of the governed”, ...

Public schools in several U.S. states are required to teach students about the Declaration of Independence, contrary to a video claim that the U.S. public education system does not teach the document ...