Thank you to The Oregonian/OregonLive for putting the Declaration of Independence on the front page on July 4. We should all take time to care about it. Just as important as the famous words about our ...

As America emerges from its 250th anniversary, it is worth recalling what made the American experiment exceptional in the first place. The formula was never especially complicated: Our rights come ...

This year, Americans are celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, which declared the “self-evident” truth that “all men are created equal” and “endowed by their Creator ...

The ‘Unfinished Revolutions: Living Stories of American Rights’ exhibit at Spurlock Museum in Urbana. Benjamin Martin Benjamin Martin The ‘Unfinished Revolutions: Living Stories of American Rights’ ...

The recent Trump-Xi summit has heightened curiosity over the United States’ commitment to human rights in China and to confronting the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) over abuses from forced organ ...

We are fast approaching the quarter-millennial anniversary of the revolutionary document that announced the birth of the United States of America to the world. The Declaration of Independence ...

I can’t think of a more fitting celebration of this Fourth of July than a reading of Walter Isaacson’s thin volume “The Greatest Sentence Ever Written.” Isaacson is an influential public scholar and ...

The American Revolution unleashed what one prominent historian has called a “contagion of liberty.” Ideas for change went viral, as revolutionaries saw independence as an opportunity to establish a ...

WASHINGTON – The Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) has issued a memorandum that incorrectly purports that neither federal disability rights laws nor Supreme Court precedent ...

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Twelve score and ten years ago, the 56 signatories to the Declaration of Independence made a break in history. They signed their death ...

This is the third of a three-part series originally delivered as a lecture May 15 at a conference, “The Declaration of Independence at 250: What New Can Be Said?” hosted by the Stanford Constitutional ...