Graham Moore, the Revolution 250 curator at the National Archives, said the "exceptional" item was "one of the rarest forms of the Declaration we know about". A rare copy of the American Declaration ...

When the signers of the Declaration of Independence pledged to each other their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor on the morning of July 4, 1776, they were making a fundamental compact ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The document is one of only 11 known copies of the so-called Exeter printing of the Declaration of Independence. Photo courtesy ...

July 3 (UPI) --A rare copy of the Declaration of Independence printed in 1776 has been found in London, making it the only known example of the so-called Exeter printing to exist outside the United ...

The papers were among a cache understood to have been seized by British sailors as the American Revolutionary War raged. Reporter Archivists in the United Kingdom have unearthed a rare copy of the U.S ...

As we celebrate America’s 250th birthday, a volunteer discovered a rare 1776 printing of the Declaration of Independence in the U.K.’s National Archive. The “Exeter Declaration,” one of 11 of its kind ...

Volunteer uncovers 1776 Exeter printing in seized American privateer’s papers This image made from video shows a newly discovered copy of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, printed in July 1776 in ...

I can’t think of a more fitting celebration of this Fourth of July than a reading of Walter Isaacson’s thin volume “The Greatest Sentence Ever Written.” Isaacson is an influential public scholar and ...

DANVERS — Two extremely rare 18th century copies of the Declaration of Independence will be on display at the Danvers Archival Center Monday evening. The documents are two original broadside printings ...

The United States is celebrating its 250th anniversary in 2026. It’s a major milestone for a country that was born in revolution against a king and comes at a moment when a protest movement against ...

On July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress adopted a document introducing a new nation to the world, composed of 13 “free and independent states.” This Declaration of Independence, read to crowds ...