but documents like the Declaration of Independence help give us better context. However, one signature in particular has caused some confusion. John Hancock signed his name abnormally large ...

Guelzo, the drafting of the Declaration of Independence is a remarkable story ... and beautiful handwriting signed so boldly by John Hancock. Guelzo: What we celebrate on the 4th of July is ...

And sure enough, there he was in Independence Hall in 1776, signing that Declaration, below and to the left of John Hancock’s now-famous penmanship. And then, in 1777, he was killed in a duel ...

On July 4, only John Hancock, the president of the Continental ... Congress refrained from publishing the Declaration of Independence with a list of the signers until six months later when America ...