Adom Getachew ▪ Summer 2026 NAACP silent protest parade in New York City in 1917 (Underwood & Underwood, Library of Congress) On September 2, 1945, as the anticolonial struggle spread across ...

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 ...

Walking into The American Philosophical Society Museum’s dimly-lit first-floor gallery, you are confronted by an eight foot square map of North America, purchased by Benjamin Franklin and hung in ...

Speaking at WSJ Opinion Live in Washington, D.C., WSJ Editor at Large Gerard Baker and Texas Senator Ted Cruz discuss the war in Iran, the 2028 Republican primaries, and whether Mr. Cruz would accept ...

In January 1777, Baltimore printer Mary Katharine Goddard published the first copies of the Declaration of Independence that included the signers’ names. By then, the document was already old news.

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 United States has officially declared war 11 times in the nation’s history, the first time for the War of 1812 and most recently for World War II. According to the U.S. Constitution, Congress has ...

Eighty-six countries and two international organisations have endorsed the New Delhi Declaration on artificial intelligence (AI), aimed at building an inclusive, human-centric and development-oriented ...

This rare broadside copy of the Declaration of Independence will be sold in May. Goldin A rare copy of the Declaration of Independence is going up for sale this May, the auction house Goldin announced ...

President Donald Trump calls on a reporter during a cabinet meeting with members of his administration in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on August 26, 2025. Reporter ...