On This Day In 1776, Jefferson’s Draft Reached Congress As War Erupted

On June 28, 1776, Jefferson’s draft reached Congress as Thomas Hickey went to the gallows and British warships attacked Fort ...

July 4th: How long it took to preserve the Declaration of Independence

July 4th wasn’t the day Continental Congress members decided to declare independence; they did that on July 2, 1776. It ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Every American Knows the Declaration of Independence. Almost Nobody Knows the Woman Who Printed It

As Baltimore's postmaster and printer to the Continental Congress, Mary Katharine Goddard produced the first official copy of ...
The New Yorker

Was the Declaration of Independence Better Before the Edits?

Red-headed, spindle-shanked Thomas Jefferson was thirty-three years old when he drafted the Declaration of Independence, in 1776; he was so young and, as it turned out, so long-lived that he had ...

'Deleted clauses' of the Declaration of Independence remain critical

Thomas Jefferson deleted key passages in the Declaration of Independence that historian Holly Brewer says reveal as much as what he left.
The Heritage Foundation

Did You Know?

On June 11, 1776, the Second Continental Congress assigned five delegates to write the first draft of the Declaration of Independence. The Committee included Thomas Jefferson from Virginia, John Adams ...

Declaration of Independence: From draft to democracy

For generations, Americans have looked to the Declaration of Independence as a defining statement of the nation's core ...