Shine, Perishing Republic,” wrote the poet Robinson Jeffers in 1925 about a corrupt Roaring Twenties America that he feared was “heavily thickening to empire.” We survived that degradation, just as we ...

Portraits of a red-headed Thomas Jefferson, left, and John Dickinson, right, by by Charles Willson Peale are seen at the ...

From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling throughout their ...

Before America, nations typically justified their existence through conquest, bloodlines, ethnicity, geography or even the ...

"Go to any corner of our state and you will find Mainers dedicating themselves to the public good, in small ways and large ...

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary ...

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 ...

Perhaps the most famous example of a founding-era Black American wielding the words of the Declaration as a promise to be ...

This is the final essay in a series on the Declaration of Independence, in recognition of its 250th anniversary. Most of the ...

As the nation celebrates its 250th anniversary ... it is worth asking not simply what America has meant for Jews, but what ...

By Robert Parkinson, Binghamton University, State University of New York The Declaration of Independence, with its block of ...

"To prove this," he wrote, "let facts be submitted to a candid world."  In this June 30, 2020, photo, a man walks in front of the Declaration House in Philadelphia, where Thomas Jefferson drafted the ...