The copy will be on display as part of a statewide tour to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the country's founding.

The Declaration of Independence is up for sale, but it will cost more than most of us can afford. Despite this, the edition ...

WEST CHESTER–A spirited reading of the Declaration of Independence took place Tuesday, at the Uptown! Knauer Performing Arts Center. Twenty community members solemnly, and with much emotion, read the ...

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Historian Andrew Davenport arrived at Monticello with an extraordinary background: He knew that at the very moment Thomas Jefferson wrote a book called “Notes on the State of Virginia” that ridiculed ...

Thomas Jefferson writes the Declaration of Independence and proclaims all men are created equal. Thomas Jefferson is tasked with writing a first draft of what will become the Declaration of ...

Roberts' year-end report on the federal judiciary includes some notable statements about the Declaration and its relevance to constitutional interpretation and judicial review. In his year-end report ...

IN THE BEGINNING, no one paid all that much attention to it—and, if they did, they were not particularly impressed. Now scriptural, the Declaration of Independence’s most famous sentence—“We hold ...

The Latinate term for the upcoming 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence is “semiquincentennial,” which doesn’t roll off the tongue easily. (You can use the alternative Latinates ...

Dr. Emily Sneff, an early American historian and leading expert on the Declaration of Independence will lead the lecture ...