Fourth grade teacher Dani Jesmonth told her students that she found a note crumpled up next to the recycling bin in her ...
The Latinate term for the upcoming 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence is “semiquincentennial,” which doesn’t roll off the tongue easily. (You can use the alternative Latinates ...
Suffice it to say, America is somewhat undereducated when it comes to civics, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Now is the time to change this ...
CHARLESTON — A rare artifact within the Middleton Place Foundation’s collection, which pays tribute to Arthur Middleton’s contributions to the American Revolution as a signer of the Declaration of ...
In the face of all that President Donald Trump has brought to the American democracy, the constant cry is: “Someone has to do something.” Since my “something” is limited to my vote, I’m compelled to ...
Jan. 7 is National Bobblehead Day, and what better day in 2026 to debut an America 250-inspired bobblehead? That was part of the thought process for the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum in ...
Humans have produced some great sentences over the years, such as this one from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby,” “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the ...
As our nation approaches its 250th birthday, Americans should revisit the creed that has united us since the adoption of the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that ...
IN THE BEGINNING, no one paid all that much attention to it—and, if they did, they were not particularly impressed. Now scriptural, the Declaration of Independence’s most famous sentence—“We hold ...
Aiken residents are invited to join a discussion group being organized to celebrate in a unique way the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Participants in the discussion group will seek to ...
A lot is wrong with politics today, and most Americans know it. We argue endlessly over issues that should be beyond debate, including sacred principles, natural rights, and the contractual ...
There are many reasons one might come to love one’s country. It first appears in the connection to place, a bond to a physical location, usually associated with where one grew up. It extends from ...