Current Events that Relate to History

Black radicals read the Declaration of Independence.

Many founders died in despair about the American experiment.

The Declaration has always been fought over. We can let Trump claim it, or we can take up its battle cry to “alter or to abolish” what’s destroying our country.

The answer has implications for how we move on. But nothing is straightforward.

The United States’ founding moment from Washington Crossing the Delaware to the paintings of Jacob Lawrence, Kara Walker, and Kent Monkman.

As my community modernized, we used Pennsylvania Dutch less and less. Now I'm trying to preserve it.

Every 50 years on the Declaration of Independence’s anniversary, the nation comes together to wrestle with the principles of its founding and what they mean for us in the present.