Americans are about to celebrate the fight for independence from Great Britain, and few events in the history of the United States are as deeply ingrained in our culture as the Fourth of July. Parades ...

On a hot, steamy day in Philadelphia, a group of delegates to the Continental Congress gathered to celebrate the final approval of the Declaration of Independence. Viewed now as patriots by Americans, ...

We revere this document today, but that the time there was nothing close to a guarantee that it would be remembered as anything other than a blip in history; a warning about the dangers of lofty goals ...