The latest event in the series recounted Haiti’s fight for independence and how Haitian immigrants led to Philly’s role as ...

France and Haiti saw powerful possibilities in the Declaration’s language about rights and equality, but those possibilities felt threatening inside the early United States.

As Americans celebrate 250 years of independence, people in countries around the world that have long taken inspiration from the Declaration of Independence are reflecting too. In reporting his ...

The Latinate term for the upcoming 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence is “semiquincentennial,” which doesn’t roll off the tongue easily. (You can use the alternative Latinates ...