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 ...

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Americans will celebrate the nation's birthday on the Fourth of July, but Founding Father John Adams believed that July 2 was ...

It's the 249th birthday of the United States. And as Americans begin to prepare for our nation's grand semiquincentennial ...

The signers of the Declaration of Independence accused the king of crimes against the people they represented. Those very ...

CONCORD, N.H. — Two historic copies of the Declaration of Independence are on display temporarily inside the New Hampshire State House, where visitors can get an up-close look at the penmanship ...

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UVA president's resignation reflects deeper issues regarding federal influence on universities and the ongoing debate over ...

The Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776 to announced ...

On the evening of July 4, 1776, printer John Dunlap produced an estimated 200 copies of the Declaration of Independence from his Philadelphia shop. Over the following years, most copies were lost ...

President Donald Trump was set to speak Thursday night at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in an event being billed as the kickoff ...

About 500 copies of the Declaration of Independence were produced in its first official printing, on July 4, 1776. The document sold on Thursday is one of 25 copies of that printing known to exist ...