A “rare” presidential artifact long held in private hands is now on public view in Indiana — at least for the summer.

It’s being shown alongside an annotated version of the same ... He was the great-grandson of Declaration of Independence signer Benjamin Harrison, the grandson of President William Henry ...

On June 19, 1865, Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger declared at Galveston, Texas, that "all slaves are free" by virtue of Lincoln's edict dated Jan. 1, 1863. It took more than two years to make the promise of ...

The declaration still stands today as a manifesto. There are its lofty, “self-evident” principles, of course: that “all men are created equal” and that they are “endowed by their Creator with certain ...

Drafted by Thomas Jefferson between June 11 and June 28, 1776, the Declaration of Independence is at once the nation's most cherished symbol of liberty and Jefferson's most enduring monument.

Learn more. The Brick Store Museum invites the community the community to a celebration of the nation’s founding with a public reading of the Declaration of Independence. The event is scheduled ...

That 1789 document was written by those who had thrown off the shackles of the world’s most powerful monarchy, and boldly said in their Declaration of Independence that we govern “by the consent of ...

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