Just two years after it was bought for $4, it was sold at Sotheby’s for $2,420,000, establishing a record at the time for any ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - As we celebrate Independence Day, the National Archives in Washington, D.C. is letting the public view ...

Some exhibits and events are already underway in Providence and Newport to mark the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of ...

While Brits mark summer with Glastonbury, Wimbledon, and the occasional BBQ, Americans go all in on 4 of July festivities.

The Declaration of Independence was not signed, however, until Aug. 2, 1776. Some of these signers were not a part of the original Congress who proposed and approved of the document in early ...

This original copy of the Declaration of Independence, printed on the night of July 4, 1776, is on permanent display at the Dallas Public Library.(Ben Torres / Special Contributor) A sacred piece ...

The Declaration of Independence used to be read aloud at public gatherings every Fourth of July. Today, while all Americans have heard of it, all too few have read more than its second sentence.

About 500 copies of the Declaration of Independence were produced in its first official printing, ... 50 years after Marshal Matt Dillon’s last draw, ‘Gunsmoke’ is a streaming hit. June 12 ...

Click here to read about the 56 people who signed the declaration of independence. ... After independence was declared, he was tasked with drawing up a plan of government for that new state.

In El Dorado County there is no shortage of ways to celebrate the signing of the Declaration of Independence and the forming ...