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 ...

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.

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 ...

(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 ...

And the Sang Collection, from Philip and Elsie Sang, belonged to two Chicago collectors known for their interest in the Declaration of Independence and its signers. “This rare printing of the ...

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.