And so the mystery remained until this past February, when Duke graduate student Julia Gaffield found the declaration -- only the second such document in the world after ... The British, then at war ...

The Declaration was necessary for concrete ... that remain espouse the ideals that spawned the Revolutionary War, much of the document comprised a litany of grievances against King George III.

In December 1941, the documents, under heavy security, were transported to the army base Fort Knox until the end of the war. Robert Livingston, a co-author of the Declaration of Independence ...

click image for close-up Click here for the text of this historical document. Of all his writings, Thomas Jefferson's most famous and far-reaching was undoubtedly his draft of the Declaration of ...

With the end of that war, and the creation ... of every individual everywhere. The document they considered, and which would later become the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, was taken ...

It hasn’t been confirmed what version of the document is in the White House. The Associated Press reported that the original document is severely faded and hanging in the Archives’ building. The docum ...

It also prevents sneaky attacks in advance of a declaration of war being ethically acceptable as part of a Just War. The example usually quoted of an attack before a declaration of war is the ...