After arriving from Ireland as an indentured servant, George Taylor called the Lehigh Valley region home for most of his life ...

The oldest was Benjamin Franklin at 70 years old. Only a handful signed both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution; they include: Benjamin Franklin, George Read, Roger Sherman ...

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

“Saturday Night Live’s” cold open spoofed the signing of the Declaration of Independence ... including the various executive orders he signed, and the weekend surrounded by tech billionaires.

John Hancock, President of the Continental Congress, signed the Declaration of Independence. It is said that John Hancock's signed his name "with a great flourish" so England's "King George can ...

Dubbed “Task Force 250,” it would oversee all federal agencies planning for the milestone, also known as the ...

There’s no need to pull a Nicolas Cage this time. A rare printing of the Declaration of Independence will hit the auction block on January 24 at Sotheby’s. Known as the Essex Broadside ...

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 ...

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

A July 1776 broadside of the Declaration of Independence is on offer at Sotheby’s, where it is estimated at $2 to $4 million. It comes to auction less than four years after it sold at Christie ...