The Declaration of Independence was written by wealthy white ... 90 provincial and local bodies – conventions, town meetings and even grand juries – had already issued their own declarations ...

The Boston Massacre In April 1776, representatives of the thirteen rebellious colonies meeting in the Continental ... In his first version of the Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson ...

Doescher: Dr. Guelzo, the drafting of the Declaration of Independence is a remarkable ... and they were meeting in Philadelphia's State House, what we now call Independence Hall, adopted a ...

Members of the Halifax County Historical Society and their guests/potential members will be “enlightened” Sunday, April 27, ...

President Donald Trump has hung a copy of the Declaration of Independence in the Oval Office, according to images he shared on social media. The Republican president's official account on X ...

Of all his writings, Thomas Jefferson's most famous and far-reaching was undoubtedly his draft of the Declaration of Independence. Although the issue of slavery was widely debated -- both the ...

Abraham Lincoln said that the Declaration of Independence was “an ‘apple of gold’ to us. The Union, and the Constitution, are the picture of silver, subsequently framed around it.