Two historic copies of the Declaration of Independence are on display temporarily inside the New Hampshire State House, where visitors can get an up-close look at the penmanship of those who founded ...

Before adjourning, however, Congress appointed a Committee of Five to draft a statement outlining their justifications for declaring independence. The first draft of the Declaration of Independence ...

The U.S. hid the Declaration of Independence during World War II. Although the Civil War was fought on American soil, it was ...

56 men signed the Declaration of Independence, but many of them never became famous The Fourth of July wasn’t made a federal holiday until 1870 The first Fourth of July fireworks were in 1777 ...

For all the festivities around July 4, the nation’s founding document, the Declaration of Independence, actually depicts a ...

It was read publicly for the first time on July 8 by Colonel John Nixon at what is now Independence Square in Philadelphia. The Declaration of Independence was not signed, however, until Aug. 2, 1776.

The Declaration of Independence set forth a rationale for a government of the people, by the people and for the people. It remains what it was 249 years ago: a profoundly revolutionary document.

John Trumbull’s painting, ‘Declaration of Independence,’ depicting the five-man drafting committee of the Declaration of Independence presenting their work to … ...

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.

As we mark the July 4 anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, along with the recent Louisiana Ten Commandments law, Vermont and New York’s climate superfund laws, ...