There were 56 signers to the Declaration of Independence. The youngest was Edward Rutledge from South Carolina at 26 years old. The oldest was Benjamin Franklin at 70 years old.

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Made by a printer in New Hampshire, this 1776 broadside edition was created to disseminate America's founding document to the ...

Of all his writings, Thomas Jefferson's most famous and far-reaching was undoubtedly his draft of the Declaration of Independence. Although the issue of slavery was widely debated -- both the ...

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On May 14, Israel celebrated its 75 th anniversary. If you have ever seen its Declaration of Independence, you might have noticed two female signatories in a sea of men; future Prime Minister Golda ...

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 ...