When envisioning its major exhibition marking the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in 2026, the Museum of ...

Organizers said commemorations will look to strike the balance between celebrating the nation’s founding ideals while ...

The Declaration of Independence, along with the preamble ... treasure and that the Constitution is the way we preserve and display it. The Declaration gives the Constitution purpose.

The content of the Declaration of Independence was not entirely original. In addition to borrowing from his own writing, Jefferson relied on other declarations and pamphlets of the time ...

Of all his writings, Thomas Jefferson's most famous and far-reaching was undoubtedly his draft of the Declaration of Independence. Although the issue of slavery was widely debated -- both the ...

There were 56 signers to the Declaration of Independence. The youngest was Edward Rutledge from South Carolina at 26 years old. The oldest was Benjamin Franklin at 70 years old.

A lawmaker in Kentucky has introduced legislation that would allow teachers to bring the Ten Commandments into public schools ...

Archivists will put on exhibit the 19th Amendment, which cemented the right to vote for women, in March 2026 alongside the ...

American Declaration of Independence In the case of the American ... It is not on public display but it can be viewed with permission like any other document held by the National Library.

A July 1776 broadside of the Declaration of Independence is on offer at Sotheby’s, where it is estimated at $2 to $4 million. It comes to auction less than four years after it sold at Christie ...