click image for close-up John Trumbull's life-size painting of the First Continental Congress, assembled to sign the Declaration of Independence, was copied from a miniature (21.2 x 31.2 inches ...
The First Continental Congress formed in response to the British ... the other colonies would defend it. Under The Declaration and Resolves, the Congress condemned British Parliament and King ...
The Declaration explained the decision for ... The Declarations and Resolves passed by the First Continental Congress in 1775 drew heavily on Jefferson’s grievances in the Summary View.
One of America’s greatest love stories can be understood through more than 1,000 eloquent letters that were sent between John ...
Historian Pauline Maier discovered that by July 2, 1776, when the Continental Congress ... of the Declaration never uses the word “slave.” But African Americans loomed large in the first ...
One Man’s Epic Quest To Uncover The First, True Declaration ... famous Thomas Jefferson-penned Declaration of Independence, adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776 (more ...
What follows is part of an editorial we ran in this space in 2003. We thought then it was appropriate for the Fourth of July and think it is worth repeating. “I am apt to believe it will be ...
It's that time of year when we celebrate our Declaration ... that was when the first hostilities between the army of the British empire and the commissioned forces of the Continental Army under ...