Kenneth Griffin, the billionaire art collector and hedge fund founder, purchased the document that abolished slavery, as well ...

Griffin paid a record $13.7M for the 13th Amendment and $4.4 million for the Emancipation Proclamation. Both documents were ...

Richard Rosado, Commissioner of Police "This is why I believe that I want to beg, I want to implore on the public to support the police department, to stand with the police department as a united ...

Brothers in Law is a recurring series by Professors Akhil and Vikram Amar. For more content from Akhil and Vikram, please see ...

Last Friday we celebrated the Fourth of July, which is remembered as the date the Declaration of Independence was signed. But while the Declaration has more flowery language and lots of ringing ...

The United States is alive and well 249 years after the Declaration of Independence was adopted, and that’s a great thing to ...

The tyrant, of course, was King George III, the target of the Declaration of Independence. We take it for granted now, but ...

Next year our nation will celebrate the 250th anniversary of our Declaration of Independence from then world super power ...

"Douglass wrote that democracy is not a set-and-done thing," West Stockbridge Historical Society President Bob Salerno told ...

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

Article courtesy of NewsOne Staff With the Supreme Court’s latest decision involving birthright citizenship, its important to ...