In January 1777, Baltimore printer Mary Katharine Goddard published the first copies of the Declaration of Independence that included the signers’ names. By then, the document was already old news.

Dorothy Walton’s husband signed the Declaration of Independence. Her grave in Pensacola has been lost over time, but is now ...

John Hancock will forever be known as the first of 56 delegates to sign the Declaration of Independence while Dr. Matthew Thornton of Londonderry has the distinction of being the last delegate to ...

"This monograph upon the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence was read before the Scotch-Irish Society of America at its meeting in Lexington, Virginia, on June 21, 1895, and is printed in vol. VII ...

About 1,700 hand-rolled Declaration of Independence scrolls get handed out each year. This year, that includes students at ...

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 ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - South Carolina State Fair visitors got the chance to sign a replica of the Declaration of Independence, nearly 250 years after the original document was signed in Philadelphia.

Independence Day, also known as the Fourth of July, marks the birth of the United States as an independent nation. On this day in 1776, the Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of ...

BEAUFORT, SC. (WTOC) - The Arsenal building in downtown Beaufort stands as one of the oldest structures in South Carolina’s second oldest city, but its historical significance predates its 1798 ...