In January 1777, Baltimore printer Mary Katharine Goddard published the first copies of the Declaration of Independence that included the signers’ names. By then, the document was already old news.

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 ...

Amid contention, criticism, and compromise, a divided nation had to present a unified front. It came at a cost.

Matthew Spalding joined the RCP Podcast on Friday to explain why the Declaration of Independence was not merely an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Stock Getty Images photo of the Declaration of Independence. Right around the Fourth of July, Americans pay renewed attention to ...

(THE CONVERSATION) A crowd gathered along the waterfront in New York City in the summer of 1776. The scene they witnessed was terrifying. The largest expeditionary force in British history sailed into ...

July 4, 1776, is an important date in American history that is widely considered the birthday of the United States of America. But some people argue that Aug. 2 should actually be America's birthday, ...

But if Jefferson and his colleagues on the Committee of Five avoided specifying what a national government should look like, ...

A historic copy of the Declaration of Independence will be on display at the Museum of the American Revolution as part of a new exhibit the opens this fall. The poster-sized copy of the Declaration, ...

Among longtime history teacher Karalee Wong Nakatsuka’s most prized possessions are two nearly identical T-shirts with very ...

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the ...