A copy of the Declaration of Independence sold for more than $3.6 million as part of a USA 250 Anniversary auction ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Declaration of Independence did more than assert the Colonies' independence from Britain. iStock/Getty Images Plus A crowd ...

It still continues because the flame of liberty and independence still burns in the heart of every American patriot.” With that in mind, it’s worth looking at the Declaration of Independence, signed ...

On July 19, 1776, Congress ordered the Declaration onto parchment as Washington sent 300 men to strengthen defenses near New ...

Sneff’s book follows different printings of the Declaration across the Thirteen Colonies and beyond between the summer of 1776 and the winter of 1777, tracing how diverse populations received the news ...

Michael Scurr, a volunteer at Britain’s National Archives, has discovered a rare early copy of the Declaration of ...

The Declaration of Independence was first shared through public readings, not signatures. It took time to appear in printed versions. The famous engrossed parchment copy was not signed on a single day ...

As we celebrate America’s 250th birthday, a volunteer discovered a rare 1776 printing of the Declaration of Independence in the U.K.’s National Archive. The “Exeter Declaration,” one of 11 of its kind ...

A printed broadside copy of the Declaration of Independence, that was read aloud in public spaces when America declared its freedom, is attracting high bids.

Listed simply as “another paper” in the Royal Navy inventory, the Declaration remained buried in British archives for 250 years.

A volunteer at the National Archives in London found the document among other papers seized from an American ship in 1776.

Michael Scurr, a retired insurance broker, found the text while cataloging boxes of 18th-century correspondence housed at the ...