On July 4th, 2026, the United States will commemorate the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. This is a historic milestone that invites Americans to reflect upon the ideas, convictions, and sacrifices that gave birth to a country that was “conceived in liberty,” to which President Abraham Lincoln alluded during the Gettysburg Address. For two and a half centuries, the Declaration of Independence has stood as one of the most influential statements of liberty ever written. Its...

Blog Author & Liberty Encounters Owner Aaron Bradford, portraying a Sergeant in the 1st Delaware Continentals in front of the New Castle Court House Museum, built in 1732 In the year 1702, the representatives of the Three Lower Counties of Pennsylvania along the Delaware River were upset! They passed a bitter complaint that all laws before had been for the benefit of Pennsylvania and ignored the Counties on the Delaware. One example of this was from an incident in1699. The brigantine...

The famous political cartoon first published by Benjamin Franklin in 1754 Benjamin Franklin first published the famous illustration in...