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.

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, ...

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.

Rare Declaration of Independence manuscript found inside law book. Posted: January 16, 2025 | Last updated: March 19, 2025. The manuscript is believed to have been penned in 1788 by Samuel Jones ...

"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 ...

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 ...

As the USA looks forward to celebrating the Fourth of July, recalling the Declaration of Independence of 1776, here is New Englander Robert Frost’s salute to the occasion. He perceives, with a ...

The Declaration of Independence was not signed, however, until Aug. 2, 1776. Some of these signers were not a part of the original Congress who proposed and approved of the document in early ...

Politico reported on Wednesday that The New York Times "forgot" to publish the Declaration of Independence in its July 4 print edition for the first time in 100 years.

In a playful moment a century ago, the historian Carl Becker pondered this counterfactual: What if Benjamin Franklin, not Thomas Jefferson, had drafted the Declaration of Independence? A scholar ...

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 ...

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.