A volunteer sorting through historical papers at the National Archives in London has identified a vanishingly rare copy of ...

United States’ Declaration of Independence, often considered to be the birth of America. While July 4 has been considered America’s birthday ...

The Declaration of Independence's ideal that "all men are created equal" is a foundational, yet radical, concept for the ...

The soul of the Declaration lives in the first two paragraphs, and mostly in two remarkable sentences where Thomas Jefferson ...

A rare surviving Declaration of Independence copy was discovered at the UK's National Archives, the only known Exeter ...

With July 4th around the corner, we look at the misconceptions and myths that surround Independence Day in the U.S.

The United States is celebrating its 250th anniversary today. Let's take a closer look at the document that birthed the ...

I can’t think of a more fitting celebration of this Fourth of July than a reading of Walter Isaacson’s thin volume “The Greatest Sentence Ever Written.” Isaacson is an influential public scholar and ...

The Declaration of Independence, with its block of cursive letters scrawled onto parchment, looks like a relic from the distant past. Likewise, you might think the 27 grievances against King George ...

On America’s 250th anniversary, Midland area residents had the chance to interact with history by signing their own names on ...

As America marks 250 years since the Declaration of Independence, historians say Miami was a sparsely populated British ...

A rare 1776 printed copy of the Declaration of Independence has been discovered at The National Archives in Kew, UK, after ...