An extremely rare copy of the Declaration of Independence that was hidden behind wallpaper to protect it from ransacking Civil War troops, has surfaced. The Washington Post reports that the copy, ...

Lauren Milliman peered through the display glass, admiring not just what the words on the parchment said, but also the way they looked, with flowing loops and flourishes. "I'm looking at how pretty it ...

Pressed behind the glass of an ornate gold frame, the familiar words flow across the delicate paper. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,” it reads. Here, in the ...

A copy of the Declaration of Independence that was lost for 177 years has been sold at auction for $4.4 million. The rare document was gifted to the last surviving Founding Father, Charles Carroll, in ...

MIDTOWN, Manhattan (WABC) -- The New York Public Library is showcasing a rare copy of the Declaration of Independence in honor of Independence Day. Thomas Jefferson's handwritten document will be on ...

During the Civil War, the precious document was hidden behind wallpaper in a home in Virginia to keep Union soldiers from finding it. Later, it sat in a closet in Kentucky, in a broken frame, ...

When America was brand new, we had to let other countries know we’d declared our independence. Several hand written copies of the Declaration of Independence were delivered to leaders of other nations ...

About 200 copies of the Declaration of Independence were printed July 4, 1776. Of the 26 known to exist today, one print resides in North Texas. There’s a rare piece of American history tucked into ...

A second parchment copy of the Declaration of Independence has been found. In England, of all places. It’s a remarkable discovery, because the only other parchment manuscript copy of the historic ...

The manuscript was discovered by two researchers in Sussex, England. The Sussex Declaration, the only other manuscript copy of the Declaration of Independence besides the 1776 version at the National ...