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On this day in 1754, Benjamin Franklin published one of the most famous cartoons in history: the Join or Die woodcut. Franklin’s art carried significant importance at the time and is considered an early masterpiece of political messaging.
The recent protests about the Israel-Hamas war at universities around the nation are drawing attention to the most basic of First Amendment rights: the ability to…
In this look back at the landmark Brown v. Board in 1954 decision about desegregation, Ronald K.L. Collins and Judge Thomas L. Ambro recall the case from Delaware…
The 27th Amendment is the most recent amendment to the Constitution, and its existence today can be traced to a college student who proposed the idea in a term…
May 1 is Law Day, an event that honors “liberty, justice and equality under law which our forefathers bequeathed” to the United States. Learn more about 10…
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