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 ...

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

Americans would pay $36,386 to witness the signing of the Declaration of Independence, according to a survey of 2,000 people.

Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston on this day in history, Jan. 17, 1706. He achieved fame in Philadelphia and won the acclaim of London society but surrendered it for love of homeland.

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

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

All those who signed the Declaration were delegates to the Second Continental Congress, which met in Philadelphia. The Congress was a convention of representatives from the various colonies.

The Fourth of July is the most prominent all-American holiday — the birthday of our country — even though celebrating the Fourth didn’t become common until after 1815, and Independence Day ...

He goes long on Franklin’s magnetism: Here was a man who never delivered a memorable public speech but who—after the age of 70—“helped write the Declaration of Independence, then secured ...

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.