For an elected official’s take on the IRS’ change to the Johnson Amendment, we turned to Mahomet Republican state Sen. Chapin ...

Douglass delivered his speech amid profound national divisions. At stake was the stark contradiction between America’s stated ideals — liberty, equality, democracy — and its complicity in ...

The Supreme Court examined a case involving Hemant Malviya, a cartoonist accused of sharing objectionable content about PM ...

The phrase “Give me liberty or give me death!” has been expressed by protesters from the 1989 Tiananmen Square uprising in China to those who opposed COVID-19 restrictions in the U.S. in 2020 ...

“Today you reap the fruits of their success,” Douglass told his audience. “The freedom gained is yours, and you, therefore, ...

On this day in 1896, William Jennings Bryan of Lincoln, Nebraska, delivered his famous “Cross of Gold” speech at the ...

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

As the country prepares to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence next year, now ...

Frederick Douglass 1852 speech both extolls principles in the Declaration of Independence (and Constitution) and condemns ...