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." ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

There were 56 signers to the Declaration of Independence. The youngest was Edward Rutledge from South Carolina at 26 years old. The oldest was Benjamin Franklin at 70 years old.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...