Alumnus Albert Small spent a lifetime tracking down prints of the Declaration of Independence and the signatures of all who ...

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 personal ...

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As the 250th anniversary of signing of the Declaration of Independence draws closer, a rededication of the gravesite of Thomas Heyward Jr. was held in Ridgeland, May 3, 2025. Heyward was one of South ...

Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before they died. Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned. Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or hardships suffered in ...

Sometime before the Civil War, a horseshoe settled among tree roots near the home of James Gibson Swisher (1794–1862), a Texas Ranger and member of the group of signers of the Texas Declaration of ...

One was a doctor and the other a lawyer. One was a minister with a sullied reputation, and the other was feuding with Button ...

The George Taylor House on Friday hosted a reading of the Declaration of Independence that takes place annually at the Catasauqua building. The event also featured house tours, a Bell Choir ...

On Independence Day, I will have the esteemed honor of being the first African American descendant ever asked to read the Declaration of Independence as part of a longstanding July 4th tradition at ...

In the muggy summer of 1776, 56 men met in Philadelphia and pledged their “lives, fortunes, and sacred honor” to America’s future with the Declaration of Independence. None of them was a full-time ...

What happens when you get a signer of the Declaration of Independence in a room with a signer of the United States Constitution? The University of Georgia, of course.