The first is an introduction, the second is the actual declaration and the third – signed by ... but all of the major independence documents produced by different secretaries share a distinctive ...

Over the course of many months, the Founding Fathers would work on the Declaration of Independence until it was officially ...

click image for close-up Click here for the text of this historical document ... far-reaching was undoubtedly his draft of the Declaration of Independence. Although the issue of slavery was ...

Guelzo: No. And frankly, you read these 27 grievances in the Declaration of Independence and they are a real eye glazer. Doescher: Right. And it's funny because this document has served as such a ...

A rare broadside copy of the Declaration of Independence is heading to auction at Sotheby’s, where it’s expected to fetch between $2 and $4 million. Dated to July 1776, this edition was created to ...

Thomas Jefferson was the principal author of the United States Declaration ... to Independence Day, a US community paper based in Texas had been posting small daily chunks of the historic document ...

The Exeter Broadside is one of the rarest copies of the Declaration of Independence. Discover its recent $2.4 million sale ...

By D.G. Martin Regular readers of this column may remember my interest in the so-called Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence dated May 20, 1775, a date enshrined on North Carolina’s state flag. In ...

Organizers said commemorations will look to strike the balance between celebrating the nation’s founding ideals while ...

The content of the Declaration of Independence was not entirely original ... Nearly a quarter of the document was cut during editing. Although the paragraphs that remain espouse the ideals ...

The Declaration of Independence, along with the preamble ... 5 Why then was it included in the document that declared that separation? Because the document also defined the character of the ...