But plans for that attack were in place before the American Declaration of Independence reached London. The king's emissaries, brothers Viscount Richard Howe and General William Howe, issued a ...

Scotland's History Enlightenment and Empire American Declaration of Independence The Adobe Flash player and Javascript are required in order to view a video which appears on this page. You may ...

We are proud to offer the Goodspeed's-Sang-Streeter copy of the July 1776 Essex broadside printing of the Declaration of Independence. “An expression of the American mind," according to Thomas ...

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

Courtesy of Sotheby's Later this month, Sotheby’s will auction off a rare piece of American history: a 1776 printing of the Declaration of Independence. Scheduled to hit the block in a ...

RIDGELAND — The signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 is imbued with so much significance and gravitas in the American psyche that 250 years later it's easy to overlook how much ...

But there is a big difference between Juneteenth and Independence Day. Juneteenth is a federal holiday which is celebrated ...

New York was the only colony to abstain from the vote of Independence. Not until August of 1776 did the Declaration of Independence have all 56 signatures. The Declaration was officially written ...

The Valcour Battle Chapter Sons of the American Revolution will present a reenactment of the public reading of the Declaration of Independence at 10 a.m. July 5 in Veterans Park on the U.S. Oval. The ...

On November 7, 1785, a group of Native American families gathered in ... Let’s start by considering what the U.S. Declaration of Independence was for. As the historian David Armitage has argued ...