The original printing is just one of 26 known remaining copies, and one of three located west of the Appalachian Mountains.
They stood together in defiance of King George III. They're together still, buried below a monument honoring their courage.
The copy of one of the nation's foundational documents almost never sees the light of day. The museum is making an exception ...
Congress formally adopted the Declaration of Independence on the afternoon of July 4, 1776. What happened next? A little-known sequence of events tells the story. It speaks volumes about the ...
Leaders of South Carolina’s three branches of government commemorated a non-partisan event — the 250th year of the ...
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, ...
EDITOR’S NOTE: On this, the anniversary of our nation’s independence, we think it is important to publish these words that our forefathers inked 249 years ago in declaration of our fledgling nation’s ...
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Why the 'pursuit of happiness,' 250 years later, remains the Declaration of Independence's most novel phrase
The primary obligation of any government, the Declaration of Independence tells us in its famous second paragraph, is the “safety and happiness” of its citizens. The necessity of securing safety is ...
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