Two Pulitzer Prize-winning historians discuss the history of the Declaration of Independence and the founding principle, "All men are created equal." Today, we are updating an NPR Independence Day ...

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Mark Guiney is the manager of video production in Digital Productions at The Heritage Foundation. He also produces and creates video for The Daily Signal. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, ...

On this Independence Day, we hear some words we have debated since the country was founded, words that are part of our July Fourth tradition. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED NPR BROADCAST) BOB EDWARDS: ...

It’s common for Americans on July 4 th to read and discuss the Declaration of Independence, and to reflect on its principles and ideas. Those principles and ideas are often attributed solely—though ...

The Latinate term for the upcoming 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence is “semiquincentennial,” which doesn’t roll off the tongue easily. (You can use the alternative Latinates ...

There is confidence in the Declaration of Independence and the arguments made by the patriots in the years leading up to 1776. Leading loyalists or new Whigs warned of dreadful consequences that would ...

Two Pulitzer Prize-winning historians discuss the history of the Declaration of Independence, and its founding principle that "all men are created equal." On this Independence Day, we hear some words ...

Suffice it to say, America is somewhat undereducated when it comes to civics, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Now is the time to change this ...

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