The document is among 25 surviving poster-sized editions printed by John Dunlap and posted in public meeting places on the ...

Nolan Oliver, left, and Morgan Andzel, both 22, from Buffalo, N.Y., look over a copy of the Declaration of Independence on display at The Henry Ford Museum at the “With Liberty and Justice for ...

The Declaration of Independence printed with the names of the signers. Mary Katherine Goddard's name is at the bottom Photo by Library of Congress / Handout / Handout By Petula Dvorak ...

A July 1776 broadside of the Declaration of Independence is on offer at Sotheby’s, where it is estimated at $2 to $4 million. It comes to auction less than four years after it sold at Christie ...

The Fourth of July is approaching, and every year Morning Edition takes the holiday to reflect on the nation’s founding document — The Declaration of Independence. What comes to your mind when ...

It was read publicly for the first time on July 8 by Colonel John Nixon at what is now Independence Square in Philadelphia. The Declaration of Independence was not signed, however, until Aug. 2, 1776.