In January 1777, Baltimore printer Mary Katharine Goddard published the first copies of the Declaration of Independence that ...

If you look at the signatures on the Declaration of Independence, you will see William Hooper among the names. Hooper, a ...

Above: Mary Katherine Goddard’s signature on the Declaration of Independence. Credit: TheNewHistoria A range of programs from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As America nears its 250th birthday, one of Augusta's oldest memorials still stands as an enduring tribute to three of the ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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.

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