click image for close-up John Trumbull's life-size painting of the First Continental Congress, assembled to sign the Declaration of Independence ... Adams to commission large historical scenes ...

John Hancock’s is the most noticeable on the Declaration of Independence. Hancock was president of the Congress at the time of signing, and he signed the document firstwith a very large ...

April 19 was the 250th anniversary of the start of the American Revolutionary War, which would lead to the Declaration of ...

The content of the Declaration of Independence was not entirely original ... a King Jefferson did harness the revolutionary spirit on paper, but also included statements with which Congress ...