Paul G. Summers explains why reading the Declaration of Independence is essential to understanding our Constitution.

The new exhibition, which shows how the document was edited, also features an early copy of the Gettysburg Address ...

A rare copy of the American Declaration of Independence has been discovered at the UK's National Archives ahead of the 250th anniversary of its signing. The document, which was seized by the Royal ...

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.

An engraving of the Declaration of Independence. A draft of the U.S. Constitution. A markup of the Bill of Rights. These and several other original documents from the founding era of the United States ...

Red-headed, spindle-shanked Thomas Jefferson was thirty-three years old when he drafted the Declaration of Independence, in 1776; he was so young and, as it turned out, so long-lived that he had ...

Several historic documents that shaped America are now on display for the public to see, in a rare exhibit running through August in Seattle.

Say what? Then why don’t we celebrate Independence Day on July 2nd? Well, the 4th of July is when the Declaration of Independence was ratified by the Second Continental Congress in 1776, but the ...