According to the town clerk, a local minister read the transcription aloud shortly after the historic document was written ...

Corey and Chumlee look at a rare authentic copy of the Declaration of Independence made by engraver and printer William J. Stone in this clip from "Declaration of Dopeness." ...

This particular copy was recorded in the Wells Town Record Book in July 1776 by Town Clerk Nathaniel Wells.

The Town of Wells, Maine, has uncovered an extraordinary local link to the nation’s founding.

On Aug. 19, 1776, the congregation of First Parish first heard the words that birthed the United States, with residents ...

The Huguenot Society of South Carolina helped bring the sole surviving copy of Charleston printer Peter Timothy's broadside ...

July 4 is a red- white- and blue-letter day to recall the Declaration of Independence. Who better to give insights about it than Archbishop Fulton Sheen? As perceptive and prophetic as ever of what ...

The parchment -- auctioned off Thursday in Philadelphia -- was actually just one of only a few dozen known remaining copies of the Declaration printed by master engraver William Stone.

Comic artist Joe Young wants the exhibit to highlight both well-known and lesser-known Black individuals whose voices and ...

The Fourth of July is the most prominent all-American holiday — the birthday of our country — even though celebrating the Fourth didn’t become common until after 1815, and Independence Day wasn’t made ...

The Fourth of July is approaching, and every year Morning Edition takes the holiday to reflect on the nation’s founding document — The Declaration of Independence. What comes to your mind when you ...

Savannah residents gathered to reenact Archibald Bulloch reading the Declaration of Independence 250 years ago.