America’s founding document, including the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, came dangerously close to falling into enemy ...

That Abraham Lincoln, our most American of presidents, "never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the ...

A new exhibit at the National Archives fills in the gaps around the Declaration of Independence, explaining what led to the ...

I'm delighted to report that Michael Auslin, a Distinguished Research Fellow here at Hoover, will be guest-blogging this week ...

A crowd gathered along the waterfront in New York City in the summer of 1776. The scene they witnessed was terrifying. The largest expeditionary force in British history sailed into the American ...

The British government gifted the US a massive, custom-made coin to mark 250 years since the Declaration of Independence.

Despite the military disaster at Bladensburg, the Marines gave the men and women of the capital precious time to flee.

Introduction -- The world in the Declaration of independence -- The Declaration of independence in the world -- A world of declarations -- Conclusion -- Declarations of independence, 1776-1993 -- ...

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 ...

Humans have produced some great sentences over the years, such as this one from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby,” “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the ...