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 ...

Most people know that the July 4th holiday celebrates the day the United States of America gained its Independence (the day is also referred to as Independence Day). This day was when the Declaration ...

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It’s hard to imagine, 237 years later, how much those 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence were risking when they wrote their names on the document. While we might risk overindulging in the ...

In June of 1776, the Continental Congress formed a five-person committee consisting of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman and Robert R. Livingston to draft a declaration of ...

I wonder how many of us would have signed the Declaration of Independence if we had been there. I wonder how many of us would have had the courage to risk everything we possessed -- family, property, ...