click image for close-up John Trumbull's life-size painting of the First Continental Congress, assembled to sign the Declaration of Independence ... with a rough floor plan and a description ...

On July 4, 1776, the United States declared its independence from Great Britain. The nation's founding document is fittingly named the Declaration of Independence, and it outlines how the then-13 ...

Each lesson has lesson plans, assignments, discussion questions, multimedia, and other resources. Jack Miller Center Video Series on the Declaration of Independence In this short video series ...

It's that time of year when we celebrate our Declaration of Independence ... to play in it because they were already occupied with plans for alliances and foreign policy. And in fact, both ...