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 ...

(Jefferson was far from the only slave owner in the Continental Congress; a full third of ... from publishing the Declaration of Independence with a list of the signers until six months later ...

A copy of the Declaration of Independence known as the July 1776 ... particularly the Revolutionary War and the Declaration’s signers. The July 1776 Essex Broadside has a distinctive and unusual ...

In the U.S. state of California, activists have begun collecting signatures for secession from the U.S. and the subsequent declaration of independence. This is reported by the New York Post.

The Exeter Broadside is one of the rarest copies of the Declaration of Independence. Discover its recent $2.4 million sale ...

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 ...