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 ...

click image for close-up Click here for the text of this historical document ... far-reaching was undoubtedly his draft of the Declaration of Independence. Although the issue of slavery was ...

The main objectives of the Declaration of Independence were to announce a ... The Americans, like their Saxon ancestors who left various parts of continental Europe to come to England, did not ...

We all know this part: But we don’t really know ... The following is the actual text from the Declaration of Independence as it was written (most notably the spelling and grammar), and it ...

One of five surviving recorded copies of a subsequent edition of The Declaration of Independence will lead ... first printing of the final and full text, printed only for delegates,” he says.

Louis Pasteur's famous comment that "chance favors the prepared mind" helps explain how Julia Gaffield discovered the only known original printed copy of Haiti's Declaration ... years of independence.