A new book by historian Emily Sneff records the journeys of the Declaration's first printed copies, tracking their reception in the Thirteen Colonies and overseas ...

Its sanction came from a righteous cause, and as Congress began to edit Thomas Jefferson's draft on July 2 and 3, it found ...

Michael Auslin is the author of the forthcoming, on Tuesday, “National Treasure: How the Declaration of Independence Made ...

How did the American colonists separate fact from fiction? It wasn’t easy, explains Emily Sneff in “When the Declaration of ...

Amid contention, criticism, and compromise, a divided nation had to present a unified front. It came at a cost.

Nashville, TN -- A rare 1823 "official" copy of the Declaration of Independence was sold at auction Thursday in North Carolina for $477,650 by the man who found it last year in a Nashville thrift ...

On July 4, 1776, the United States declared its independence from Great Britain. The nation's founding document is fittingly named the Declaration of Independence, and it outlines how the then-13 ...

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 ...

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, ...

May 20 is "Meck Dec Day," marking the date in 1775 when the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence was said to have been announced — more than a year before the nation's official declaration on July ...