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 ...

A historic copy of the Declaration of Independence will be on display at the Museum of the American Revolution as part of a new exhibit the opens this fall. The poster-sized copy of the Declaration, ...

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 ...

Students at Nipmuc Regional High School recently got a rare opportunity to view two handwritten copies of the Declaration of ...

HOUSTON -- "When I found out, I started to get a little bit nervous." Michael O'Mara always knew his family had a copy of the Declaration of Independence, but he thought it was nothing special.

A few days after the Continental Congress officially adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, Thomas Jefferson sat down and started writing. The 33-year-old Virginia statesman dashed ...

July 4, 1776, is an important date in American history that is widely considered the birthday of the United States of America. But some people argue that Aug. 2 should actually be America's birthday, ...

CHICAGO — Gov. JB Pritzker joined the Illinois America 250 Commission at Navy Pier Wednesday to announce plans for ...

And yet the Declaration — and its various copies — also still holds a few mysteries of its own, including how a version that was found in a records office in Chichester, England, got there, and how a ...