Women used the Declaration’s language to demand rights they were denied. Women were not the intended audience of the Declaration of Independence, but they refused to treat it as a finished document.

David H. Babcock is retired after 32 years of service to the state of Iowa at the Iowa State Penitentiary. The Declaration of Independence provided the theoretical foundation of our Constitution and ...

It’s no surprise that 56 men — but no women — penned their names on the Declaration of Independence at a time when women had few rights and no standing in society, especially in government and ...

It’s no surprise that 56 men – but no women – penned their names on the Declaration of Independence at a time when women had few rights and no standing in society, especially in government and ...

“We have to continue walking…We still have to cover a long distance, but we are in the right direction.” The event took place 20 March during the 69th Commission on the Status of Women, a panel of ...

Join us for an insightful and dynamic discussion on the pivotal role of the women who shaped the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This event will explore the historical context, the challenges ...

In January 1777, Baltimore printer Mary Katharine Goddard published the first copies of the Declaration of Independence that included the signers’ names. By then, the document was already old news.

The League of Women Voters of Wheaton is proud to sponsor “Declaration 1776: The Big Bang of Modern Democracy,” a traveling panel exhibition from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, as ...