The Declaration of Independence is a formal document that served as the signatory colonies’ statement that they were now “free and independent States.” It is a vital document in American ...

John Trumbull's painting "Declaration of Independence" depicts the five-man drafting committee of the Declaration of Independence presenting their work to the Congress. The painting can be found ...

President Trump is displaying a copy of the Declaration of Independence in the Oval Office after requesting it from the National Archives, according to a photograph he shared on Monday.

WASHINGTON (AP) — 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 ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. But the president has also asked advisers in recent days about moving the Declaration of Independence into the Oval Office, according to people familiar with ...

The film depicts the historical events leading to the Declaration of Independence by the thirteen American colonies in 1776. It highlights the colonists' struggle for self-governance, their ...

MONTGOMERY, Monday ... In this they merely asserted the right which the Declaration of Independence of 1776 defined to be inalienable. Of the time and occasion of its exercise, they as sovereigns ...

A July 1776 broadside of the Declaration of Independence is on offer at Sotheby’s, where it is estimated at $2 to $4 million. It comes to auction less than four years after it sold at Christie ...

MONTGOMERY BLAIR ... or really desired it to be considered by the Senate. His declaration is that Mr. BLAIR "desired that it should be considered by the Senate;" and, inasmuch as, after the ...

Joe Lee, an internationally recognized dealer in obscure blues, rock and jazz recordings and whose Montgomery ... who signed the Declaration of Independence. His father, Blair Lee III, was a ...

Let’s start by considering what the U.S. Declaration of Independence was for. As the historian David Armitage has argued, its main purpose was to get the United States recognized as a sovereign ...