The Declaration of Independence is full of promise and a few mysteries. A rare copy of it ended up at The Henry Ford Museum ...

The text says that governments are human constructions. The legitimacy of governments depends upon democratic consent, not ...

Editor's note: In honor of Independence Day — this year, we mark 249 years since the United States parted with Great Britain ...

How the University of Iowa's Center for the Book played a major hand in protecting the United States' founding documents.

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary ...

Editor's note: In honor of Independence Day — this year, we mark 249 years since the United States parted with Great Britain — we present the nation's founding document, the Declaration of ...

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

People gathered Tuesday at the Berks County Services Center to commemorate the first local reading of the document.

July 4, 1776, is an important date in American history that is widely considered the birthday of the United States of America ...

The Declaration of Independence is a foundational document in American history. It was officially adopted by the Second ...