There were 56 signers to the Declaration of Independence. The youngest was Edward Rutledge from South Carolina at 26 years old. The oldest was Benjamin Franklin at 70 years old.

America is built around a proposition. It's built around what was written into the Declaration of Independence. And whoever wants to step up and say "yes" to that, at that moment, by appropriating ...

in the 2004 film National Treasure Nicolas Cage steals the Declaration of Independence because he thinks there’s a map on the back written in invisible ink. So if Trump returns his copy of the ...

click image for close-up Click here for the text of this historical document ... far-reaching was undoubtedly his draft of the Declaration of Independence. Although the issue of slavery was ...

One Man’s Epic Quest To Uncover The First, True Declaration of Independence ... There’s also a good case made that the text we currently have (from a variety of copied sources) is largely ...

ten days before he died on July 4 (the same day that John Adams died), Jefferson declined an invitation to be in Washington for the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. He wrote ...

The following is the actual text from the Declaration of Independence as it was written (most notably the spelling and ...

The irony wasn't lost on Adams that the Declaration of Independence, which trumpeted freedom for all men, was written by a slave owner. (Jefferson was far from the only slave owner in the ...