A deadlock over the distribution of power threatened to derail the creation of a constitution for the newly formed United ...

The only reason Jefferson could call certain truths 'self-evident' is that he was living in a world shaped by Judeo-Christian ...

In the heart of the city, in 1784 David Landreth founded the D. Landreth Seed Company. During its long life, Landreth’s ...

We celebrate the Declaration of Independence as the “opening act” for a series of “main events” that laid the foundation of ...

The Broadway musical “Hamilton” and the historian whose book inspired it are getting the National Constitution Center’s ...

So Parliament took a new approach. It passed laws—the Sugar Act and Stamp Act— to raise revenue directly, bypassing the ...

This country, whose government was founded in 1776 by Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, Washington, and others, had never before ...

Re: “Abbott clears way for Ten Commandments in schools,” Metro, June 26: Gov. Greg Abbott is so fixated on displaying the Ten ...

Perhaps the greatest legacy of America’s first Jews, however, was their faith in their power to effect change.

A rare broadside of the "Declaration of Independence, July 1776, on view at Seth Kaller Inc., Historic Documents & Legacy ...