It is known as the “Fair Copy” of the Declaration of Independence — a rare, early, unedited version of the nation’s founding document, drafted in Jefferson’s eloquent hand, and containing a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Created 1776, The United States Declaration of Independence is the pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress ...

More than two centuries after July 4, 1776, the men who signed the Declaration of Independence — especially John Hancock — are famous. But the woman whose name also appears on the document, or at ...

The exhibition invites visitors to step into a moment when American independence, and the nation itself, was still taking ...

Congress formally adopted the Declaration of Independence on the afternoon of July 4, 1776. What happened next? A little-known sequence of events tells the story. It speaks volumes about the ...

The Declaration of Independence was approved on July 4, 1776, dissolving political ties with Great Britain. The Declaration outlines the philosophy that governments derive their power from the consent ...

A stamp has been issued to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the American Declaration of Independence and a ...

The stamp honors the Irish connection to the historic Declaration of Independence document ...

CPKC celebrates USA’s 250th anniversary with locomotive #1776 in Old Glory colors, featuring Declaration & Constitution ...

An Ulster connection to the American Declaration of Independence has been commemorated in a new stamp. John Dunlap, who was born in Strabane, County Tyrone, in 1747, printed the first broadside copies ...

Canadian Class I CN on March 4 launched two commemorative locomotives—moving tributes marking the 250th anniversary of the ...