LEPORE: Douglass comes to realize the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, you know, we're not going to win this battle by denouncing them. ... GORDON-REED: It's like a great poem.

"Signing the Declaration of Independence, 28th June 1776" is a painting by John Trumbull, commissioned in 1817. It depicts Thomas Jefferson and the drafting committee presenting the document to ...

On July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, ... The poem with music by Samuel A. Ward was published as a song in 1910. In 1910, ...

Dispensing with the Declaration of Independence would be a degradation, not an advancement. On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech on the ...

The Declaration of Independence used to be read aloud at public gatherings every Fourth of July. Today, while all Americans have heard of it, all too few have read more than its second sentence.

LEPORE: Douglass comes to realize the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, you know, we're not going to win this battle by denouncing them. ... GORDON-REED: It's like a great poem.

July 4 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1776, the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, proclaiming U.S. independence from Britain. In 1826, in one of history's notable ...