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

Doescher: Dr. Guelzo, the drafting of the Declaration of Independence is a remarkable ... of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation." ...

Of all his writings, Thomas Jefferson's most famous and far-reaching was undoubtedly his draft of the Declaration of Independence ... who joined the British cause: "...he is now exciting those ...

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 was created to ...

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 ...

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America ... a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We ...

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.

The content of the Declaration of Independence was not entirely original. In addition to borrowing from his own writing, Jefferson relied on other declarations and pamphlets of the time ...