A “rare” presidential artifact long held in private hands is now on public view in Indiana — at least for the summer.

It’s being shown alongside an annotated version of the same ... He was the great-grandson of Declaration of Independence signer Benjamin Harrison, the grandson of President William Henry ...

On a recent Untapped New York members-only visit to the library while showing highlights of the Berg Collection, including an annotated ... a copy of the Declaration of Independence, and more!

On June 19, 1865, Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger declared at Galveston, Texas, that "all slaves are free" by virtue of Lincoln's edict dated Jan. 1, 1863. It took more than two years to make the promise of ...

The declaration still stands today as a manifesto. There are its lofty, “self-evident” principles, of course: that “all men are created equal” and that they are “endowed by their Creator with certain ...

As the 250th anniversary of signing of the Declaration of Independence draws closer, a rededication of the gravesite of Thomas Heyward Jr. was held in Ridgeland, May 3, 2025. Heyward was one of ...

RIDGELAND — The signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 is imbued with so much significance and gravitas in the American psyche that 250 years later it's easy to overlook how much ...

Drafted by Thomas Jefferson between June 11 and June 28, 1776, the Declaration of Independence is at once the nation's most cherished symbol of liberty and Jefferson's most enduring monument.