It's that time of year when we celebrate our Declaration of Independence ... commissioned forces of the Continental Army under George Washington were having their first collisions.

(The Conversation) – Editor’s note: Americans may think they know a lot about the Declaration of Independence ... other complaint – Jefferson said George III had encouraged enslaved ...

Only a handful signed both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution; they include: Benjamin Franklin, George Read, Roger Sherman, Robert Morris, George Clymer, and James Wilson.

Of all his writings, Thomas Jefferson's most famous and far-reaching was undoubtedly his draft of the Declaration of Independence ... railed against King George III for creating and sustaining ...

it’s worth remembering that immunization played a key role in America’s War of Independence. In 1776, as George Washington was leading the Continental Army through some of the earliest battles ...

It is in this red-brick, Georgian-style building that the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution ... can also see the Assembly Room where George Washington was appointed commander ...

Among George's crimes: the "horrors of the human slave trade." The irony wasn't lost on Adams that the Declaration of Independence ... while Washington, who commanded America's army, owned ...