The nation's founding document has been celebrated by leaders across the centuries, and it can still guide us today.

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The best means of achieving justice for any oppressed people is to lay claim to the American constitutional tradition as ...

That got me thinking that Thoreau should be the fourth instalment of my Historical Heroes series wherein I take admirable ...

As the U.S. celebrates 249 years of independence, we reflect on the milestones that shaped its democracy—an enduring ...

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If I forget thee,” Abraham Lincoln thought, speaking not at this moment of God’s Law but of the doctrine of the Declaration ...

To celebrate the Fourth of July, the Village Voice takes a look at Frederick Douglass's powerful 1852 anti-slavery oration.

On March 4, 1986, the air outside US Capitol was biting, a mist of disillusionment hanging forebodingly like smoke from wet ...

COMMENTARY By likening Trump's immigrant-demonization crusade to Lincoln's abolition of slavery, Miami U.S. Rep. María Elvira ...

A handwritten copy of the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution signed by Abraham Lincoln has sold at auction for a record $13.7 million. It’s the highest price ever paid for a document signed by ...

This is the fifth in a series of articles about Marshalltown street names. Today’s article identifies the five city streets ...