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.

According to the town clerk, a local minister read the transcription aloud shortly after the historic document was written ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Declaration of Independence did more than assert the Colonies' independence from Britain. iStock/Getty Images Plus A crowd ...

A volunteer in Britain's National Archives has stumbled on something the US thought it had entirely to itself. While sorting through 18th-century Royal Navy papers in February, Michael Scurr opened a ...

The Declaration of Independence was first shared through public readings, not signatures. It took time to appear in printed versions. The famous engrossed parchment copy was not signed on a single day ...

In 1776, the Declaration of Independence was read aloud throughout the Colonies and ordered recorded in local records. One Maine town just discovered its handwritten copy.

As we celebrate America’s 250th birthday, a volunteer discovered a rare 1776 printing of the Declaration of Independence in the U.K.’s National Archive. The “Exeter Declaration,” one of 11 of its kind ...

A 1776 copy of the Declaration of Independence was just sold for an eye-watering total. The Exeter Broadside copy of the Declaration – printed and distributed among the colonies to spread the word of ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Christopher Magra, University of Tennessee (THE CONVERSATION) A crowd gathered along ...