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Media added. Jun 30, 2026
Questions and answers added. Jun 25, 2025
Modified link of Web site: Thomas Jefferson's Monticello - Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence. Jun 09, 2025
Corrected display issue. May 05, 2025
Added interactive. Mar 18, 2025
Questions and answers added. Feb 21, 2025
Media added. Feb 06, 2025
Add new Web site: Thomas Jefferson's Monticello - Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence. Sep 12, 2024
Add new Web site: USHistory.org - The Declaration of Independence. Mar 29, 2024
Add new Web site: Salt Lake Community College Pressbooks - Attenuated Democracy - Deism, the Indigenous Critique, Natural Rights, and the Declaration of Independence. Mar 29, 2024
Add new Web site: Architect of the Capitol - Declaration of Independence. Jan 25, 2024
Add new Web site: Khan Academy - The Declaration of Independence. Aug 06, 2023
Media added. Jun 14, 2023
Add new Web site: National Archives - Declaration of Independence: A Transcription. Apr 27, 2023
Add new Web site: Chemistry LibreTexts - The Declaration of Independence. Dec 03, 2022
Add new Web site: Bill of Rights Institute - Declaration of Independence (1776). Aug 23, 2022
Add new Web site: Free Speech Center at Middle Tennessee State University - Declaration of Independence. Apr 03, 2022
Add new Web site: PBS - American Experience - The Declaration of Independence. Apr 03, 2022
Add new Web site: Colonial America - Declaration of Independence Facts. Dec 06, 2020
Added cross-references. Oct 16, 2020
Media added. Jul 02, 2020
Media added. Aug 13, 2019
Added the text of the Declaration of Independence and a list of its signers. Oct 27, 2017
Add new Web site: Mr.Nussbaum - Declaration of Independence for Kids. Apr 06, 2017
Add new Web site: American History for Kids - The Declaration of Independence. Dec 12, 2016
Add new Web site: U.S. Department of State - Office of the Historian - The Declaration of Independence, 1776. Aug 01, 2016
Add new Web site: National Archives - America's Founding Documents - Declaration of Independence. Jul 31, 2016
Add new Web site: The Heritage Foundation - The Declaration of Independence. Jul 31, 2016
Add new Web site: Congress for Kids - The Declaration of Independence. Dec 07, 2012
Add new Web site: Quatr.us - Declaration of Independence. Jul 22, 2010
Article restructured. Aug 21, 2009
Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - History - Declaration of Independence. Nov 06, 2008
Added new Web site: University of Groningen - Revolution to Reconstruction - Declaration of Independence. Oct 04, 2007
Article revised and updated. May 10, 2007
Article revised and updated. Feb 02, 2007
Added new Web site: Theaching American History - The Declaration of Independence. Nov 08, 2006
Added new Web site: Theaching American History - The Declaration of Independence. Nov 08, 2006
Added new Web site: Library of Congress - Thomas Jefferson. Sep 29, 2006
Added new Web site: Library of Congress - Declaring Independence: Drafting the Documents. Sep 29, 2006
Added new Web site: The Library of Congress - Primary Documents in American History. Sep 27, 2006
Added new Web site: UShistory.org - The Declaration of Independence. Sep 21, 2006
Article revised and updated. Jun 09, 2006
Added new Web site: ColonialHall.com - Declaration of Independence. May 10, 2006
Added new Web site: Archiving Early America - The Declaration of Independence. May 08, 2006
Article revised. Mar 28, 2003
Article revised. Aug 23, 2002
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