The Times contends in their 1619 Project that the true founding of our nation is not 1776, but when the first slave arrived ...

The United States’ founders firmly rejected King George III and the entire idea of monarchy 249 years ago, on July 4, 1776.

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It’s long past time Americans face the truth about the Founding Fathers. A critique that places events being celebrated on ...

News of the Declaration of Independence reached Great Britain in August 1776 and ignited a media frenzy, according to the Jack Miller Center, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit dedicated to teaching about ...

At least 500 demonstrators lined the streets outside the federal courthouse in Eugene on July 4 for a "No Kings since 1776" ...

It's been 249 years since the Declaration of Independence was passed by the Continental Congress in 1776, which the holiday ...

Most people know that the July 4th holiday celebrates the day the United States of America gained its Independence (the […] ...

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Columnist Jonathan Lange writes, “The deleted paragraph demonstrates how kicking the can down the road never solves the problem. More often, it makes ...

As celebrations began on the East Coast for the first Fourth of July, a distant Colorado was untouched by British colonials. What did Colorado look like?

It was 249 years ago, in 1776, that 13 British colonies in North America declared their independence. In recent years many of the men who became known as the Founding […] ...