Over the course of many months, the Founding Fathers would work on the Declaration of Independence until it was officially signed on July 4, 1776, by some of the most influential figures in US history ...

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.

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.

(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 ...

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 ...