click image for close-up John Trumbull's life-size painting of the First Continental Congress, assembled to sign the Declaration of Independence, was copied from a miniature (21.2 x 31.2 inches ...

but documents like the Declaration of Independence help give us better context. However, one signature in particular has caused some confusion. John Hancock signed his name abnormally large ...

It's a common mistake to confuse the Declaration of Independence vs. Constitution—but there are important differences ...

A violent windstorm scattered British flatboats on the York River more than 100 years before the term “derecho” would be ...

Samuel Chase who was another Maryland delegate and signer of the Declaration of Independence, and Carroll’s cousin , Father John Carroll, who would become the first archbishop of Baltimore ...

John Hancock, President of the Continental Congress, signed the Declaration of Independence. It is said that John Hancock's signed his name "with a great flourish" so England's "King George can ...

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In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands ...

On July 2, 1776, the Second Continental Congress voted unanimously to declare independence from ... from the writings of philosopher John Locke. The Declaration's second paragraph, however ...

But, until then? Roll it, John Popp. Doescher: Dr. Guelzo, the drafting of the Declaration of Independence is a remarkable story. And what the Declaration has produced is even more remarkable.

In the end we must live independent or die. Independence or death... let these sacred words unite us and be the signal of battle and of our reunion. Citizens, my countrymen, on this solemn day I have ...

Supreme Court Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch discussed three ideals in the Declaration of Independence, while in conversation with one of his law clerks and National Constitution Center President ...