Declaration of Independence

This political cartoon shows President Glover Cleveland standing at a table with his right hand on a document labeled, "Declaration of Independence July 4th 1885." The document states, "When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for a President to dissolve the political bands which

The original rough draft of The Declaration of Independence written by Thomas Jefferson, includes a passage that condemns slavery and King George's involvement in it. This draft was very controversial because of the Southern and Northern delegates who represented merchants actively involved in…

The Declaration of Independence is a document that announced the independence of the 13 American colonies from Great Britain. It was adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776.

<p><span class="deck">Cursed by ancestry,bedeviled by his posterity, beset by forces he could not grasp, George III is usually remembered as the ogre of Jefferson’s Declaration. An eminent English historian reassesses that strange and pathetic personality</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> For ten tumultuous years Sam Adams burned with a single desire: American independence from Great Britain.</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">WHAT IS THERE TO CELEBRATE?</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">HISTORICAL REGISTER of the CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION 1876.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> Under duress in a British prison, Richard Stockton of New Jersey had the singular misfortune to become</span> </p>

<p><span class="body"><span class="body">America has taught the world that freedom is humanity’s birthright. Why should we expect President Carter to keep quiet about it?</span></span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> James Wilson was an important but now obscure draftsman of the Constitution. Carry Wills is a journalist and historian fascinated by what went on in the minds of our founders. The two men meet in an imaginary dialogue across the centuries.</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">While the American Revolution was still being fought, Mum Bett declared that the new nation’s principle of liberty must extend to her, too. It took 80 years and a far-more-terrible war to confirm the rights that she had demanded.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The<em> Declaration of Independence</em> is not what Thomas Jefferson thought it was when he wrote it, and that's why we celebrate it.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">“WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS…”</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> As Adams and Jefferson died, America came of age</span> </p>