We celebrate the Fourth of July because it was on that day in 1776 that the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration Of Independence. On July 2, they voted to declare independence from Britain, ...

When the American colonists broke the bonds with England in 1776, our founders crafted a vision of liberty quite distinct from King George’s version of governance. The founders believed that ...

A new book by historian Emily Sneff records the journeys of the Declaration's first printed copies, tracking their reception in the Thirteen Colonies and overseas ...

A letter written and signed by Easton’s George Taylor, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, will be auctioned off this week for big bucks. , of Amherst, N.H., had reached a top bid ...

In October 2020, two months before Covid-19 vaccines would become available in the US, Stanford health policy professor Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and two colleagues published an open letter calling for a ...

WASHINGTON — In his confirmation hearings to lead the National Institutes of Health, Jay Bhattacharya pledged his openness to views that might conflict with his own. “Dissent," he said, ”is the very ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) placed 139 employees on administrative leave Thursday after they signed a public “declaration of dissent” against the agency. The affected employees, ...

In 2026 we are supposed to be celebrating the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. In 1776 those who were living in this land wanted to be free from the “Tyranny” that they subjected to by ...

In reading the Declaration of Independence this July 4, one of the reasons for declaring our independence struck me as being quite relevant to the politics of our time. It seems that our forefathers ...

Most people know the gist of the Declaration of Independence: Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness, and all that. But I never hear anyone quote the last sentence in which our Forefathers fully ...

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