It encapsulates why Independence Day is so important and gives meaningful context into the complexity and deliberation. I suggest listening to it first and then reading the Declaration in full.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

The Declaration of Independence was signed on August 2, 1776. Many people may assume it was signed on July 4, the day it was ...

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.

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 ...

Sotheby's 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 ...