How to Define America in 30 Objects

Egypt’s King Mentuhotep II reunited his country’s upper and lower regions at the turn of the 20th century—B.C.E. Were the ...

The Declaration of Independence: Annotated 250 years later — during the Trump era

It still continues because the flame of liberty and independence still burns in the heart of every American patriot.” With ...

All Men Are Created Equal, but What Does Equal Mean?

The expansiveness of the concept helps explain its endurance.

How 'the greatest sentence ever written' defined a new nation

Historian and journalist Walter Isaacson writes that the Declaration's second sentence 'defines an enduring mission.' ...
Security Boulevard

Cut your coding agent’s cost with Sonar Vortex

New benchmarks show semantic code graphs helping coding agents find change locations faster and complete updates more ...
The News-Times

'Connecticut's Revolution' opens with more than 100 artifacts at the Museum of CT History

Part of a King George III statue that was toppled during the American Revolution and turned into ammunition is on display.
Reader's Digest

12 Interesting Facts About the Declaration of Independence That You Never Knew

Teachers spend their careers drilling facts about the Declaration of Independence into schoolchildren’s heads. We learn about the Founding Fathers and the Revolutionary War and taxation without ...
Cal Alumni Association

What Is Social Connection?

Rituals seem to be declining in modern life. Finding ways to gather together meaningfully can help us combat loneliness, pain, and division. Decades of research suggest that the quality of our social ...
The Other Cheek

USA 250: Before Hamilton (the Musical): The USA and The War of Independence (and more)

Peter Bentley provides a selection of articles from his series looking at the USA through American film and television. War ...