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The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them ...

LONDON (AP) — Michael Scurr has been volunteering at Britain's National Archives for the last 11 years, spending his Thursday mornings painstakingly cataloging documents for the benefit of future ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. On a glorious morning walk about a week before America’s 250th birthday, I was ...

A rare 1776 printing of the Declaration of Independence has been found in the U.K.'s National Archive by a volunteer. Known as an "Exeter Declaration," the copy is one of 11 of its kind known to still ...

Revisiting Benson John Lossing’s account of the lives of these 56 extraordinary men. When 56 men pledged “our lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor” 250 years ago, none forfeited the first or last.

On July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress adopted a document introducing a new nation to the world, composed of 13 “free and independent states.” This Declaration of Independence, read to crowds ...

Five of the 56 signatories of the American Declaration of Independence were doctors, a high-water mark in the history of medical representation in American political leadership. This is the third in a ...

David Armitage is the Lloyd C. Blankfein professor of history at Harvard University. Among his books to date is “The Declaration of Independence: A Global History.” His edition of the “Outlines of a ...

The Declaration of Independence, with its block of cursive letters scrawled onto parchment, looks like a relic from the distant past. Likewise, you might think the 27 grievances against King George ...