and equality
seeing the Stars and Stripes still flying proudly at first light
Roosevelt supported her husband's New Deal policies and was a strong advocate for civil rights and human welfare
BIG DREAMS series introduces little dreamers to the lives of these leaders and trailblazers who stepped up and changed the world
Gordon-Reed—herself a Texas native and the descendant of enslaved people brought to Texas as early as the 1820s—forges a new and profoundly truthful narrative of her home state
Declaration of Independence Puzzle grid iron and equalityIt's patriotic puzzle time! Thomas Jefferson, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence, is shown here placing a first draft of the document before John Hancock, president of the Second Continental Congress at the Pennsylvania State House, now Independence Hall, in Philadelphia. Less than a week later, on July 4, 1776, the colonial delegates signed the Declaration, a milestone in American history. Find out more about this landmark event