Rare copy of Declaration of Independence seized in 1776 uncovered in London

Listed simply as “another paper” in the Royal Navy inventory, the Declaration remained buried in British archives for 250 ...

Rare 1776 copy of US Declaration of Independence discovered in London after 250 years

A rare copy of the Declaration of Independence, believed to have been lost for more than 250 years, has been discovered at ...

I study the Declaration of Independence, and here’s why the colonists’ grievances are surprisingly relevant, 250 years later

The Declaration of Independence, with its block of cursive letters scrawled onto parchment, looks like a relic from the ...
Greek Reporter

Rare Copy of the American Declaration of Independence Found in UK Archives After 250 Years

A rare surviving Declaration of Independence copy was discovered at the UK's National Archives, the only known Exeter ...
The Poynter Institute for Media Studies

Is this sentence in the Declaration of Independence really the greatest ever written?

I can’t think of a more fitting celebration of this Fourth of July than a reading of Walter Isaacson’s thin volume “The Greatest Sentence Ever Written.” Isaacson is an influential public scholar and ...

Op-Ed: The legacy of the Declaration of Independence

This is the final essay in a series on the Declaration of Independence, in recognition of its 250th anniversary. Most of the ...