Lie? George is famous for his confession to his father, “I cannot tell a lie. I did cut it with my hatchet,” referring to the ...

The declaration still stands today as a manifesto. There are its lofty, “self-evident” principles, of course: that “all men are created equal” and that they are “endowed by their Creator with certain ...

On July 4, 1776, the United States declared its independence from Great Britain. The nation's founding document is fittingly named the Declaration of Independence, and it outlines how the then-13 ...

Library houses replica Declarations of Independence, while local town hall is modeled on a colonial predecessor ...

Commissioned in 1817, the painting is titled "The Declaration of Independence" and depicts the presentation of Thomas Jefferson's draft of the Declaration of Independence to the Second Continental ...