Describes the events leading up to the Declaration of Independence as well as the personalities and politics behind its framing.

In 1776 Thomas Jefferson put his quill to paper and the Declaration of Independence sprang to life. Follow the Declaration's journey over the next two centuries, surviving eight wars and travelling through five states on horseback, boat, railcar, and tank to its current home in the National Archives.

The text of the Declaration of Independence is accompanied by illustrations meant to help explain its meaning.

A discussion of the events leading up to the American war for independence from Britain, the revolutionary struggle, the Declaration of Independence, and the beginning of a new nation.

Told through the eyes of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Great Britain's King George III, Killing England chronicles the path to independence in gripping detail, taking the reader from the battlefields of America to the royal courts of Europe. What started as protest and unrest in the colonies soon escalated to a world war with devastating casualties. O'Reilly and Dugard recreate the war's landmark battles, including Bunker...