A few days after the Continental Congress officially adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, Thomas Jefferson sat down and started writing. The 33-year-old Virginia statesman dashed ...

HOUSTON -- "When I found out, I started to get a little bit nervous." Michael O'Mara always knew his family had a copy of the Declaration of Independence, but he thought it was nothing special.

The genius of the American republic lies in part in the close relationship between its two founding documents.

POTSDAM, N.Y. (AP) — A recently discovered early copy of the Declaration of Independence, printed on July 9, 1776, will be auctioned off next month in upstate New York. Manhattan printer John Holt ...

BOSTON (AP) – Harvard University researchers say they’ve discovered a second parchment copy of the Declaration of Independence. The Boston Globe reported Friday researchers Emily Sneff and Danielle ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has hung a copy of the Declaration of Independence in the Oval Office, according to images he shared on social media. The Republican president’s official ...