At left is the first Newport printing of the Declaration of Independence by Solomon Southwick, facsimile, 1776. At right is a copy by Mary Katherine Goddard printing, 1777. (Rhode Island State ...

Dangerous flash floods have rocked the Washington, D.C. area on Monday, but the nation's founding documents are safe, according to The National Archives. The historic building, which contains ...

“There’s no map on the Declaration of Independence, but on the back, upside down, is written ‘Original Declaration of Independence, dated 4th July 1776,” the US National Archives Twitter wrote in a ...

WASHINGTON, DC — The National Archives celebrated the Fourth of July by honoring the tradition of reading the Declaration of Independence to all that wished to hear. On July 4, 2024, a crowd gathered ...

The warning was not specific to the Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights or the Constitution. Rather, it was placed as a banner across various records included in the website’s catalog. But the ...

Nothing looms larger than the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution in the pantheon of great American texts; they are the foundation of the nation. These documents seem ...

The U.S. will mark 250 years since the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 2026, with a year-long series of celebrations.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of ...

Here's some fun news for the Fourth of July: America might be reading an important passage of the Declaration of Independence all wrong. A scholar's argument that an authoritative transcription of the ...

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their ...