Learn More. The Declaration of Independence expresses the ideals on which the United States was founded and the reasons for separation from Great Britain.
View each signature on the Declaration of Independence. Signatures of John Hancock, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Button Gwinnett and more, with a short description of each signer.
A timeline of the events of the American Revolution, from the French and Indian War up through the drafting and ratification of the Constitutuion
The Declaration of Independence: A History. Nations come into being in many ways. Military rebellion, civil strife, acts of heroism, acts of treachery, a thousand greater and lesser clashes between defenders of the old order and supporters of the new–all these occurrences and more have marked the emergences of new nations, large and small.
Harvard academics have discovered a second parchment copy of the Declaration of Independence at a records office in southern England.
The eldest son of a wealthy planter, Thomas Heyward, Jr., was born in at his man’s home, Old House, in St. Luke’s Parish (now Jasper County) in the Province of South Carolina, about 25 miles north of Savannah, Georgia, on July 28, 1746.
View a history of the Declaration of Independence in pictures.. Did you know the original Declaration of Independence can still be viewed in Washington D.C. today? In our Pictures of the Declaration of Independence section, you can view the original Declaration and see where it is housed in the Rotunda of the National Archives in …
At 33, Thomas Jefferson wrote the original draft of America’s historic Declaration of Independence, which was approved by the Continental Congress after several days of debate and revisions on July 4, 1776.