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How the Declaration of Independence was once bought for $4 at a flea market
Just two years after it was bought for $4, it was sold at Sotheby’s for $2,420,000, establishing a record at the time for any printed piece of American history. Donald Scheer, president of Visual ...
On This Day, July 4: Continental Congress adopts Declaration of Independence
On July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, proclaiming U.S. independence from Britain ...
A year before declaring independence, colonists offered ‘Olive Branch’ petition to King George III
Alarmed by the policies of President Donald Trump, millions turned out last month for protests around the United States and ...
Opinion - A revolutionary reimagining of American identity for the Fourth of July
In 1852, nearly a century after the Declaration of Independence was signed, Frederick Douglass famously asked, “What to the ...
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Unraveling the Titan Tragedy: Alarming Insights into OceanGate CEO’s Reckless Choices and Ignored Warnings
Stockton Rush, 61, piloted the submersible, accompanied by British billionaire Hamish Harding, 58, Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood, 48, his son Suleman Dawood, 19, and French explorer and ...