Signed by 56 congressional delegates it was, the Declaration of Independence is what set the US on its own path as a country ...

It might surprise you to learn that the bespectacled Benjamin Franklin was once quite the womanizer who fathered an ...

The signing of the Declaration of Independence was the result of a month-long political process marked by debates, drafts, ...

S taring out from the $100 bill, looking more like a wise old uncle than a Founding Father, Benjamin Franklin seems an easy ...

July 4, 1776, is an important date in American history that is widely considered the birthday of the United States of America ...

Have you ever wondered why we observe America’s birthday on July 4? Sure, the Declaration of Independence was famously ...

Benjamin Franklin was nothing short of an American sage. He was born on Milk Street in Boston in 1706 and ran away from home ...

It was with good reason that Lincoln, as devoted a student of the Declaration of Independence as any American president—with the possible exception of its author, Thomas Jefferson—pointed to the ...

A letter that was signed by "the men most responsible for the Declaration of Independence" will soon go to auction and is expected to sell for $1 million.