America’s 250th anniversary arrives at a time of deep political divisions and, in some quarters, heightened anxiety over whether representative government in the world’s oldest democracy can be ...

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 ...

The Declaration of Independence was approved on July 4, 1776, dissolving political ties with Great Britain. The Declaration ...

Visitors lined up at the University of Virginia’s Rotunda on to view one of the nation’s earliest printed copies of the Declaration of Independence.

LONDON — A rare parchment copy of the American Declaration of Independence has been found at a British archive among the papers of an aristocrat who supported the rebels, officials have said. The ...

Over the years, I have written various posts and articles on the American Revolution and the ideals of the Declaration of Independence. Some have obvious continuing relevance to such issues as ...

The plane, organized by the National Archives, will take rare 18th-century documents around the country in a tour loosely inspired by the Bicentennial’s Freedom Train. By Jennifer Schuessler In 1876, ...