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.
WEST CHESTER–The Chester County Community Foundation is proud to announce that its short documentary, Dare to Declare: Local Voices Reading the Declaration of Independence, will be featured at three ...
A crowd gathered along the waterfront in New York City in the summer of 1776. The scene they witnessed was terrifying. The largest expeditionary force in British history sailed into the American ...
“Never, never, never,” Winston Churchill wrote in “My Early Life,” “believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on that strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he ...
The U.N. General Assembly adopted a resolution Wednesday declaring the transatlantic slave trade “the gravest crime against humanity.” The resolution calls on member nations to pursue reparatory ...
Welcome to the Daily News Brief, CFR’s flagship morning newsletter summarizing the top global news and analysis of the day. “In a matter of weeks, the Iran war has generated massive uncertainty about ...
From the 1500s through the 1800s, millions of Africans were violently captured from the lush coastal kingdoms of West and Central Africa, traded through slave forts, and packed into ships bound for ...
As President Donald Trump’s war with Iran continues, some right-wing commentators are urging the administration to “declare victory” and “get out” of Iran “before it gets much worse.” Some right-wing ...
President Donald Trump likes his military campaigns short and victorious. The quick overnight strike that removed Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro from power is his preferred model of warmaking. But the U.S ...
It’s been less than a week since the beginning of the war with Iran. While the United States has not declared war on Iran, it has — along with Israel — killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, ...
An unlikely band of prominent business, religious, government and academic leaders have set aside their political differences and signed on to a new declaration of human rights for the AI age.
The Constitution says Congress, not the president, has the power to declare war on another nation, but there are exceptions and disagreements about war power. Let's get the facts. *** declaration of ...