The following text is a transcription of the first 10 amendments to the Constitution in their original form. These amendments ...

A Summer Reading List for America’s 250th Anniversary. On July 4, 2026, America will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the ...

And Douglass did so, it is worth noting, by championing the same founding principles that he celebrated in his Fourth of July ...

Over 200 years after Frederick Douglass questioned “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” in an act of resistance to Independence Day, Black Americans are still grappling with how to celebrate ...

This Fourth of July, the Capital Region will be honoring the past with public readings of the Declaration of Independence.

On July 4, 1776, the United States Declaration of Independence, formally The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, was signed. A note, most signatories wouldn’t sign until ...

The contours of this legacy are still contested, as they and so much else were at the time of their drafting. Yet, when Americans allow their disagreements to get too heated — or, worse, when they are ...

The Declaration also says that all men are created equal and have been endowed by their creator with unalienable rights. Somebody may claim that that is not a significant remark. Perhaps it was just a ...

For more years than I’m aware of, a group of my friends, many of whom are relatives, would gather along the northern shore of Lake Huron on the Fourth of July and recite the Declaration of ...

Columnist Issac J. Bailey plans to rewatch “Independence Day” this Fourth of July because he needs a reminder that the U.S.

In observance of Independence Day, Harrison County Criminal defense attorneys will host the annual public reading of the ...

Regardless of Oval Office revisionism, Americans should never forget that their nation was forged in resistance to political ...