How one of the Constitution’s earliest critics used the founding language — and silences — to fight for freedom.

Most Americans, however, will associate America’s 250th with Philadelphia on Independence Day 2026. Though unfair to all the ...

This story was originally published on July 4, 2024. IDAHO FALLS – There was a “pensive and awful silence” as John Hancock ...

Most people know that the July 4th holiday celebrates the day the United States of America gained its Independence (the […] ...

When George Washington, from Virginia, arrived in Cambridge 250 years ago, one of the first things he did was talk to his ...

He concluded, he later wrote, that the troops were “ exceeding dirty & nasty people ” led by indifferent officers with an “ ...

Following the war, in 1787, Washington was elected president of the Constitutional Convention, where he used his influence to help states accept the new United States Constitution. As the first ...

The convention had just reached its monumental high point, and the 40-year-old attorney from Massachusetts excitedly wrote ...

The recent decision of the Supreme Court denying the nation’s thousand-odd federal district judges the power, absent class action treatment, to grant nationwide injunctions has generated hysteria ...

COMMENTARY: ‘We, the People’ have a lot of work to do to get our act together, so that we can celebrate the USA’s 250th ...

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