Ultimately, that faith and trust resulted in a miraculous outcome. But it took eight grueling years of war that started in April 1775 and ended on September 3, 1783, when the Treaty of Paris was ...

The Declaration was the defining statement of the American idea—the “why” of America. We would be founded not on race, ethnicity, or class, but on an idea—the Biblical idea that all men are created ...

While most Americans connect Thomas Jefferson with the Declaration of Independence, we are vaguely aware he had some help composing this historic document. Pauline Maier’s exhaustive research for ...

The Fourth of July is an opportune occasion to reflect on the memorable phrases of the struggle for independence such as “Give me liberty or give me death,” “No taxation without representation,” and ...

The role of religion in America’s founding is more controversial today than ever. The riot at the U.S. Capitol in January 2021 unleashed a flood of acrimony toward Christian nationalists. Critics ...

A Wisconsin-based organization of atheists and agnostics is taking a Pennsylvania state House’s declaration to make 2012 the “Year of the Bible” to court, saying it violates the constitutionally ...

The National WWI Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri unearthed a century-old time capsule on Wednesday, containing early 20th-century relics and documents. Buried in 1924 within the Liberty ...

A full page ad in Sunday’s New York Times, signed by 21 religious figures, was styled as a “Declaration of Dependence Upon God and His Holy Bible.” Sen. Jason Rapert, who’s gone full-time into the ...

Special interest groups are trying to keep a ban on books in Oklahoma, but not the ones you’re probably thinking of. These books are thousands of years old, were taught in American schools from the ...

To this list of intellectual influences, one must add the Bible — both the Hebraic and Christian biblical traditions. As the eminent scholar Martin E. Marty (a native of West Point, Nebraska) remarked ...