There are many reasons one might come to love one’s country. It first appears in the connection to place, a bond to a physical ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - South Carolina State Fair visitors got the chance to sign a replica of the Declaration of Independence, nearly 250 years after the original document was signed in Philadelphia.

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - As the nation gets closer to our 250th anniversary, 19 News is celebrating those who helped get us there. In this week’s We The People, Katie Tercek introduces you to a ...

In remarks at Independence Hall in 1861, President Abraham Lincoln shared the roots of his political philosophy while reflecting on the cornerstone of the republic. “I have never had a feeling ...

Thomas Jefferson writes the Declaration of Independence and proclaims all men are created equal. Thomas Jefferson is tasked with writing a first draft of what will become the Declaration of ...

Amid the political and social upheaval of the 1960s, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. drew directly and self-consciously on the declaration. In his 1963 “ I Have a Dream” speech, King defined an ...

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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 ...

When America’s Founders wrote the declaration that gave birth to the new nation, they began by saying that “a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes.” ...

State Senator Peake shared that the framed document was hung in the Virginia Office of the Attorney General before being ...

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Words have always been America’s sharpest dagger. No one understood that better than Thomas Jefferson, whose elegant prose and consummate turns of phrase astounded our forebears. Independence, he ...