Broadside printing of the document commenced hours after it was approved. Copies were read aloud in town squares.
The Declaration of Independence is the pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 4, 1776. The Declaration explained why the 13 colonies at ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The committee assigned to draft the Declaration of Independence, from left: Thomas Jefferson, Roger Sherman, Benjamin Franklin, ...
In June of 1776, the Continental Congress formed a five-person committee consisting of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman and Robert R. Livingston to draft a declaration of ...
Historian Andrew Davenport arrived at Monticello with an extraordinary background: He knew that at the very moment Thomas Jefferson wrote a book called “Notes on the State of Virginia” that ridiculed ...
Many years ago a reader, Wallace Hooper, wrote to the Chronicle publisher with this request: “To celebrate this and every July Fourth, print the entire text of the Declaration of Independence.” In ...
This story was originally published by the Limestone Post. By Steve Hinnefeld Limestone Post March 20, 2026 Colonial printer ...
Mark Guiney is the manager of video production in Digital Productions at The Heritage Foundation. He also produces and creates video for The Daily Signal. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, ...