On July 4, 1776, the United States declared its ... Fourth of July weather forecast. Thomas Jefferson is credited as the primary author of the Declaration of Independence. However, his draft ...

By the time Jefferson was born April 13, 1743, his country had already birthed its original sin of slavery, whose legacy ...

Over the course of many months, the Founding Fathers would work on the Declaration of Independence until it was officially signed on July ... like John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin ...

A committee of five was appointed to draft the declaration, and the task itself fell on Thomas Jefferson of Virginia. Discussions of Jefferson's Declaration of Independence resulted in some ...

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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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