Former President Barack Obama used the nation's 250th anniversary to remind Americans its founding vision remained an ongoing ...

The New York Historical showcases the evolution of our nation’s hallmark idea of self-government in a thoughtful, if ...

Rep. Nancy Pelosi will launch a multimillion-dollar politics institute at UC Berkeley when she leaves office, co-teaching a ...

As part of celebrations of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence this Fourth of July, a ...

As the U.S. celebrates the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence this year, here are eight ways its political ...

Just inside the entrance to the Skä•noñh Great Law of Peace Center near the shore of Onondaga Lake, you’ll find a portrait of ...

Former House speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California), who is retiring from Congress at the end of this session, plans to ...

The first female speaker of the House will be co-teaching a course on Congress at UC Berkeley's new institute, among other ...

A top Trump administration official on Sunday shrugged off a July Fourth parade by masked white supremacists in Washington as an example of "messy" democracy that fell under the banner of ...

Experts on U.S. history look to the past — and the future.

“The principles proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence were always more important than a single man,” writes James ...

But the democracy half of that composite is the one that has most nurtured what Lincoln called our “better angels.” Democracy ...