Congress refrained from publishing the Declaration of Independence with a list of the signers until six months later when America won its first great victory in the war. Wrote New Jersey delegate ...
OF the 56 men who signed the Declaration in the summer of 1776,* 4 were practitioners of medicine, although only 1 had a medical degree. Two, Josiah Bartlett and Matthew Thornton, were delegates ...
Abraham Lincoln said that the Declaration of Independence was “an ‘apple of gold’ to us. The Union, and the Constitution, are the picture of silver, subsequently framed around it.
In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands ...