Most people know that the July 4th holiday celebrates the day the United States of America gained its Independence (the […] ...

It was read publicly for the first time on July 8 by Colonel John Nixon at what is now Independence Square in Philadelphia. The Declaration of Independence was not signed, however, until Aug. 2, 1776.

The Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, declaring the United States of ...

Thomas Jefferson was 33-years-old when he wrote the Declaration of Independence. 5. John Hancock, Congress’ president, and Secretary Charles Thomson are the only names that appear on that first ...

It was on July 4, however, that the Continental Congress approved the final text of the Declaration — after jointly making some 86 changes in the draft composed by Thomas Jefferson and four ...

Every year we republish the Declaration of Independence. 2025 is different. Read it with friends. Read it with family. Read ...

The majority of the delegates – all of them men – who signed the Declaration had been born in one of the 13 colonies, though a few were native to Great Britain or Ireland.

T his week the United States of America will celebrate the 242nd anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. If the weatherman is to be believed, this July 4th will be an ...

Independence Day, also referred to as the Fourth of July, commemorates the anniversary of the day when the Second Continental Congress formally adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4 ...

While 56 delegates eventually signed the Declaration of Independence, according to the National Archives, not all of them were present on Aug. 2, 1776, and some of them never signed the document ...

As we celebrate the 272nd birthday of Thomas Jefferson, this excerpt from Jeffery Rosen and David Rubenstein's pamphlet about the “Constituting Liberty” exhibition puts the Declaration of ...