A Croome & Brightly engraving shows John Nixon reading the Declaration of Independence after its passage in Philadelphia.

An original printing of the "Dunlap Broadside" Declaration of Independence, now on display at IU's Lilly Library. Hoosiers don’t have to travel to Washington, D.C. or Philadelphia to see one of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An original printing of the "Dunlap Broadside" Declaration of Independence, now on display at IU's Lilly Library. Hoosiers don’t ...

In January 1777, Baltimore printer Mary Katharine Goddard published the first copies of the Declaration of Independence that included the signers’ names. By then, the document was already old news.

In June of 1776, the Continental Congress formed a five-person committee consisting of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman and Robert R. Livingston to draft a declaration of ...

Americans often treat their nation’s founding text as a relic best observed through thick glass at the National Archives. It is easy to forget that the old document was once a top story. Emily Sneff, ...

WASHINGTON (TNND) — In 2026, Americans will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. America250, a bipartisan organization created by Congress, is already ...

When Thomas Jefferson was chosen to draft the Declaration of Independence, he had an exceedingly difficult task ahead of him. The 33-year-old planter, who had left law practice just before Britain’s ...

There is no time when the Declaration of Independence‘s true meaning is not worthy of deep reflection. But certainly this Independence Day, which marks the beginning of a year of celebrating the 250th ...

[This year, my annual post celebrating the Fourth of July is drawn from a chapter of Our Republican Constitution: Securing the Liberty and Sovereignty of We the People, and from a short essay on the ...