On July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence. Over the weeks that followed, Americans gathered...
The engrossed copy of the Declaration of Independence is on display at the National Archives building in Washington, DC. Millions of...
Five men served on the Continental Congress’s Declaration Committee. We know three of them well: Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and Benjamin...
The Declaration of Independence is 250 years old, and still unfinished. Its famous assertion “that all men are created equal”...
On June 12, 1776, the Second Continental Congress turned to the third and perhaps the most difficult element of independence: drafting a...
In June 1776, the Second Continental Congress faced a question every new nation must answer: how do you make other countries take you...
On July 2, 1776, the Second Continental Congress voted to declare independence. But that vote didn't begin with the Declaration of...
When we picture the War for American Independence, we picture battles. But for the men and women who actually lived and fought in it, the...
What does it mean to escape? For David George, who was born enslaved in Virginia in the 1740s, the answer was never simple. He escaped his...
Thomas Jefferson wrote about 30 grievances against King George III in his draft of the Declaration of Independence. Congress adopted 27...