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

they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this ...

The Declaration of Independence was signed on August 2, 1776. Many people may assume it was signed on July 4, the day it was officially adopted by Congress, but it took nearly a full month to get ...

Live’s” cold open spoofed the signing of the Declaration of Independence, except the scene featured President Trump. The ...

A copy of the Declaration of Independence known as the July 1776 Essex Broadside will go on the block later this month. Courtesy of Sotheby's Later this month, Sotheby’s will auction off a rare ...

According to Harvard University, about 200 copies of the original Declaration of Independence were produced in 1776. Only ...

The content of the Declaration of Independence was not entirely original ... from the only slave owner in the Continental Congress; a full third of the delegates, from both North and South ...

Abraham Lincoln said that the Declaration of Independence was “an ‘apple of gold’ to us. The Union, and the Constitution, are the picture of silver, subsequently framed around it.