Signing of the Declaration of Independence (1818) is one of four monumental paintings by John Trumbull (1756–1843) hanging inside the US Capitol Rotunda. Despite its title, the ...
On July 2, 1776, a Finnish American man held the destiny of the United States in his hands. The scene was the hall in Philadelphia that hosted the Second Continental Congress of the 13 American ...
Our national commemoration of America 250 centers on the historic moment when the delegates to the Second Continental Congress voted to separate from Great Britian and subsequently signed of the ...