As America turns 250, we trace the triumphs, contradictions and arguments that shaped the world’s first liberal republic And ...

Roberts' year-end report on the federal judiciary includes some notable statements about the Declaration and its relevance to ...

Richard M. Reinsch II is director of the B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies at The Heritage Foundation and columnist for The Daily Signal. He is also a senior writer for Law & Liberty. If we ...

The Declaration of Independence is the pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 4, 1776. The Declaration explained why the 13 colonies at ...

The United States has never fully lived up to its promise, but if the promise of America is embodied anywhere, it is in Jefferson’s famous preamble. Historians believe that Jefferson understood the ...

The official declaration of America’s independence from Britain may be dated July 4, 1776, but the story of the Thomas Jefferson's hallowed document really begins two weeks later. On July 19, the ...

What Is the American Heritage? Audio By Carbonatix For most of human history, the strong ruled over the weak. Enter the United States. This week the United States of America will celebrate the 242nd ...

The Declaration of Independence confidently announces that America is now a separate nation from Britain and declares the new nation’s purpose, making it essential to our Founding. To understand and ...

In June of 1776, the Continental Congress formed a five-person committee consisting of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman and Robert R. Livingston to draft a declaration of ...

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, ...