Five of the 56 signatories of the American Declaration of Independence were doctors, a high-water mark in the history of medical representation in American political leadership. This is the third in a ...

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 ...

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With the United States’ 250th birthday, the documentary filmmakers of Declarations: Black Americans and the Revolutionary War turned to modern technology to reclaim history. Director Stacey Holman and ...

PARIS — Heads of state at the next G7 Summit are set to endorse declarations on specific issues, spanning from health to critical minerals, while geopolitical talks will be addressed in a statement by ...

ARLINGTON, VA; June 9, 2026— PBS announced that a new one-hour film, DECLARATIONS: BLACK AMERICANS AND THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR, will premiere Monday, June 29, at 10:00 PM ET (check local listings) on ...

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 ...

The New York Historical thinks it has identified the anonymous printer behind a rare broadside printing of the Declaration made soon after July 4, 1776. By Jennifer Schuessler Before the Declaration ...

Across eight months of conversations with historians, legal scholars, museum leaders, and theologians, USA250’s Outspoken project asks how the American ideals of liberty and equality have changed ...

On the Fourth of July 1776, the congressional delegates in Philadelphia adopted the Declaration of Independence, then ordered that it be widely "proclaimed." Couriers carried the printed version by ...

The HHS secretary's declariation had asserted that treatment for gender dysphoria in young people is not safe or effective and attempted to exclude health care providers that offer this care from ...

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 ...