Signed by 56 congressional delegates it was, the Declaration of Independence is what set the US on its own path as a country ...

Right around the Fourth of July, Americans pay renewed attention to the country’s crucial founding document, the Declaration ...

It's worth revering not just the document itself, but the men of consequence who made American independence a reality.

Just two years after it was bought for $4, it was sold at Sotheby’s for $2,420,000, establishing a record at the time for any ...

And as Americans begin to prepare for our nation’s grand semiquincentennial celebration next year, it is worth reengaging with the document whose enactment marks our national birthday: the Declaration ...

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WHEN, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected ...

On July 4, 1776, the United States Declaration of Independence, formally The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, was signed. A note, most signatories wouldn’t sign until ...

Republicans are going to celebrate American pride on the Fourth of July as they always do, while Democrats are ready to ...

The Declaration of Independence. Jul 2 ... Signed by order and in behalf of the Congress,JOHN ... George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George RossDELAWARE: Caesar Rodney ...

On the evening of July 4, 1776, printer John Dunlap produced an estimated 200 copies of the Declaration of Independence from his Philadelphia shop. Over the following years, most copies were lost ...

Drafted by Thomas Jefferson between June 11 and June 28, 1776, the Declaration of Independence is at once the nation's most cherished symbol of liberty and Jefferson's most enduring monument.