As our country gets ready to celebrate its 250th birthday, a piece of history from its 50th is now on display in Richmond.

Jonas Phillips had been living with the Declaration of Independence for a little more than three weeks by late July 1776, ...

Released online each Monday through June 29, the tickets grant access to one of the few surviving “fair copies” of the ...

As the nation gets ready to celebrate its 245th birthday, a printed copy of the Declaration of Independence has gone on the auction block and sold for $4.46 million. The document was one of 201 that ...

Massachusetts towns will receive authentic replicas of the Declaration of Independence to mark the nation's 250th anniversary ...

The document is believed to be one of only two special copies created in the 1820s in honor of the U.S.'s 50th anniversary.

Philadelphia honors the Declaration of Independence with an exhibit showcasing rare artifacts and historical insights as the ...

The New York Historical thinks it has identified the anonymous printer behind a rare broadside printing of the Declaration ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- A Utah investment firm purchased a rare copy of the Declaration of Independence for $477,650 after a thrift-store shopper acquired it for $2.48. It will be displayed June 29 at ...

Amid contention, criticism, and compromise, a divided nation had to present a unified front. It came at a cost.

A few words in the Declaration of Independence, describing Indigenous people as "savages," did lasting damage, professor ...