As we prepare to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, here is a question worth pondering: Was the event it sought to explain and justify — the American War of ...

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David Armitage is the Lloyd C. Blankfein professor of history at Harvard University. Among his books to date is “The Declaration of Independence: A Global History.” His edition of the “Outlines of a ...

A.O. Scott is a Times critic who writes about literature and ideas. “The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem,” Walt Whitman wrote, but the nation was conceived in prose. Other ...

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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Purchase Article Reprint As a people, we feel lost. Our political life is full of division and animosity. Our society struggles to find ...

Red-headed, spindle-shanked Thomas Jefferson was thirty-three years old when he drafted the Declaration of Independence, in 1776; he was so young and, as it turned out, so long-lived that he had ...

It is known as the “Fair Copy” of the Declaration of Independence — a rare, early, unedited version of the nation’s founding document, drafted in Jefferson’s eloquent hand, and containing a ...

The Constitution says Congress, not the president, has the power to declare war on another nation, but there are exceptions and disagreements about war power. Let's get the facts. *** declaration of ...

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Looking at Iran’s foreign policy narrative toward the US, two elements stand out in particular. The first is the way the US president is addressed directly by name. The second is how Iran seeks to ...

The Declaration of Independence’s 250th anniversary in 2026 is certain to be a time of national reflection. Americans tend to look to the Constitution to assess whether the nation is living up to its ...