As the USA celebrates the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, a leading historian talks about why it ...

Governing principles came in 1789 with the U.S. Constitution, which did not mention God. In 1791, states then ratified the ...

Monday marks the 70th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Initially, the world took little notice of the document’s proclamation in Paris in 1948 at the third ...

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

Here are the seven winning essays from the Cambria County America 250 contest, held in conjunction with the ...

Fireworks should be Fourth of July entertainment, not the defining characteristic of legislative debate. (Jamie Francis/The Oregonian, 2013) Discussion of the Declaration of Independence usually ...