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Ignorance of America’s institutions, principles, and history weakens commitment to our nation and its future. It threatens the country as much as any foreign army. Without a knowledge of the country’s history, young people will struggle to realize how important, precious yet fragile, our constitu…

In a desperate effort to defend a key stronghold from advancing British troops, the Continental Army dug in at Philadelphia’s Fort Mifflin in September 1777. What followed was among the most brutal sieges of the Revolutionary War. The patriots’ meager defenses couldn’t withstand the constant Brit…

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. Americans are so accustomed to the second sentence of the Declaration of Independence t…

Nearly six years ago, in the terrible summer of 2020, I published an article titled “A Declaration of Independence by a Princeton Professor.” In the first paragraph, I wrote that my family and I had “sat around the festive table” a few days before, on the Fourth of July, and “read the D…