Observer

Sotheby’s Is Selling a Rare Printing of the Declaration of Independence

A copy of the Declaration of Independence known as the July 1776 Exeter Broadside will go on the block later this month. Courtesy of Sotheby's Later this month, Sotheby’s will auction off a rare piece ...
Smithsonian Magazine

This Rare Printing of the Declaration of Independence Could Sell for $4 Million

This copy of the Declaration was printed by Robert Luist Fowle of New Hampshire. Sotheby's A rare broadside copy of the Declaration of Independence is heading to auction at Sotheby’s, where it’s ...
New York Post

Why the ‘pursuit of happiness,’ 250 years later, remains the Declaration of Independence’s most novel phrase

The primary obligation of any government, the Declaration of Independence tells us in its famous second paragraph, is the “safety and happiness” of its citizens. The necessity of securing safety is ...
BBC

The Viking word hidden in the Declaration of American Independence

From Roman freedom to Viking happiness, the iconic words in the Declaration of Independence reveal thousands of years of humans wrestling with how to live well together – and the power of language to ...