The United States is alive and well 249 years after the Declaration of Independence was adopted, and that’s a great thing to ...

So Parliament took a new approach. It passed laws—the Sugar Act and Stamp Act— to raise revenue directly, bypassing the ...

Washington, D.C., hosted a joint birthday parade for President Donald Trump, 79, and the U.S. Army, age 250, on June 14.

The United States of America is turning 250 years old. As an American, I am grateful to be a citizen of this Country. It is by far not a perfect ...

Shutterstock Walk in the Footsteps of Declaration Signers Feeling patriotic after July 4th? Good thing it falls on a long ...

Understandably, after almost 250 years, the legislature is tired of being a coequal branch of government and wants to take a ...

The only reason Jefferson could call certain truths 'self-evident' is that he was living in a world shaped by Judeo-Christian ...

Unrestricted birthright citizenship — the characteristically New World notion that being born on a country’s soil is enough ...

The contours of this legacy are still contested, as they and so much else were at the time of their drafting. Yet, when Americans allow their disagreements to get too heated — or, worse, when they are ...

A Summer Reading List for America’s 250th Anniversary. On July 4, 2026, America will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the ...