How fitting that our nation's founders used the flight feathers of geese to sign the Declaration of Independence 248 years ...

Congress refrained from publishing the Declaration of Independence with a list of the signers until six months later when America won its first great victory in the war. Wrote New Jersey delegate ...

It's a common mistake to confuse the Declaration of Independence vs. Constitution—but there are important differences ...

Of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence, historians list as many as 9 as “farmers”. The National Archives, however, lists only one with that occupation – John Morton of ...

When Carroll of Carrollton signed the Declaration of Independence, he was not only the lone Catholic to do so, but being the richest man in the colonies, he was putting his entire fortune on the ...

How old were the Founding Fathers when the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776? Some were older, like Thomas Jefferson who was 33, John Hancock who was 39, or Benjamin Franklin who was 70.

The statue honors America’s “shocking and upsetting” history of racial discrimination and superiority, some students said.

An incredibly rare American coin from the year of the Declaration of Independence found in a toffee tin has sold for £25,000 ...

Doescher: Dr. Guelzo, the drafting of the Declaration of Independence is a remarkable ... that the mindset of the time for the people that signed this document? Guelzo: Well, they're being ...

In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands ...

In the end we must live independent or die. Independence or death... let these sacred words unite us and be the signal of battle and of our reunion. Citizens, my countrymen, on this solemn day I have ...