It's that time of year when we celebrate our Declaration of Independence ... commissioned forces of the Continental Army under George Washington were having their first collisions.

(The Conversation) – Editor’s note: Americans may think they know a lot about the Declaration of Independence ... other complaint – Jefferson said George III had encouraged enslaved ...

Only a handful signed both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution; they include: Benjamin Franklin, George Read, Roger Sherman, Robert Morris, George Clymer, and James Wilson.

In 2026, the United States will mark the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence — a bold and revolutionary ...

Mere days before the Declaration of Independence was signed ... a member of the elite guard responsible for protecting George Washington, was convicted of mutiny and sedition, and on the morning ...

George Washington was the recipient of ... who was in Philadelphia practicing signing the Declaration of Independence, and it was immediately published in the newspapers with an English translation.

It is in this red-brick, Georgian-style building that the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution ... can also see the Assembly Room where George Washington was appointed commander ...

Nick Perencevich is a retired physician and lives in Concord. An underground movement led by the likes of brewer Sam Adams and physician Joseph Warren burst armed out of the woods onto the ...

click image for close-up John Trumbull's life-size painting of the First Continental Congress, assembled to sign the Declaration of Independence ... and Saratoga, George Washington resigning ...

Among George's crimes: the "horrors of the human slave trade." The irony wasn't lost on Adams that the Declaration of Independence ... while Washington, who commanded America's army, owned ...