WASHINGTON -- The original Constitution, Bill of Rights and Declaration of Independence, locked away for two years for treatment to ensure their longevity, are going back on display in ...

A top Justice Department lawyer has been mocked on social media after she mixed up the Declaration of Independence and the ...

The Constitution of the United States will be front and center in the Aurora Municipal Center’s board room on Veterans Day, Tuesday, Nov. 11. In a public gathering entitled “A Constitutional ...

WASHINGTON — On this 243rd anniversary of the beginning of the best thing that ever happened — "The Great Republic" was Winston Churchill's tribute — many of today's most interesting arguments about ...

In We the People, Jill Lepore argues the Constitution isn’t the parchment paper, but the evolving democratic imagination of the people.

The US as a modern nation began in 1789, but between the Constitution and Alexander Hamilton’s national bank, the original ...

SUNY Cortland will mark Constitution Day on Wednesday, Sept. 17, with three events to kick off a yearlong celebration of the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. The university’s ...

Donald Trump‘s Justice Department might be lacking behind with a majorly needed lesson in history, all thanks to the recent ...

The main objectives of the Declaration of Independence were to announce a cause of action and formally justify the Continental Congress’s July 2, 1776, decision to separate from Great Britain. The ...

Some states teach from primary sources so students develop background knowledge and the ability to advance evidence-based arguments. (U.S. government/archives.gov) Some suggest that the United States ...

Almost 250 years ago, not long after Thomas Jefferson used a quill pen at his portable writing desk to put together a first ...

Naper Settlement is planning a special exhibit as part of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of ...