The Declaration of Independence is up for sale, but it will cost more than most of us can afford. Despite this, the edition offered by Goldin Auction was originally printed and distributed so that ...

WEST CHESTER–A spirited reading of the Declaration of Independence took place Tuesday, at the Uptown! Knauer Performing Arts Center. Twenty community members solemnly, and with much emotion, read the ...

Printed in July 1776, the Essex Broadside is attributed to Robert Luist Fowle of Exeter. It’s one of just 13 contemporary broadsides to be issued that year, and one of just 10 remaining examples known ...

The old adage “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure” also doubles as the ultimate collector’s fantasy. Every garage sale, thrift store or dollar bin is an opportunity to find a diamond in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some states teach from primary sources so students develop background knowledge and the ability to advance evidence-based ...

The Latinate term for the upcoming 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence is “semiquincentennial,” which doesn’t roll off the tongue easily. (You can use the alternative Latinates ...

Richard M. Reinsch II is director of the B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies at The Heritage Foundation and columnist for The Daily Signal. He is also a senior writer for Law & Liberty. If we ...

A July 1776 broadside of the Declaration of Independence is on offer at Sotheby’s, where it is estimated at $2 to $4 million. It comes to auction less than four years after it sold at Christie’s for ...

Lauren Milliman peered through the display glass, admiring not just what the words on the parchment said, but also the way they looked, with flowing loops and flourishes. "I'm looking at how pretty it ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: On this, the anniversary of our nation’s independence, we think it is important to publish these words that our forefathers inked 249 years ago in declaration of our fledgling nation’s ...

Some states teach from primary sources so students develop background knowledge and the ability to advance evidence-based arguments. U.S. government archives.gov Some suggest that the United States is ...