LONDON (AP) — Michael Scurr has been volunteering at Britain's National Archives for the last 11 years, spending his Thursday mornings painstakingly cataloging documents for the benefit of future ...

LONDON — A rare copy of the Declaration of Independence lost for 250 years has been discovered in London, where it is the only known example of its kind outside the U.S. Subscribe to read this story ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. On a glorious morning walk about a week before America’s 250th birthday, I was ...

A rare 1776 printing of the Declaration of Independence has been found in the U.K.'s National Archive by a volunteer. Known as an "Exeter Declaration," the copy is one of 11 of its kind known to still ...

A volunteer cataloging naval letters came across a copy of the document, printed 250 years ago in New Hampshire. “It was a thrilling find,” he said. By Isabella Kwai Isabella Kwai reported from the ...

There is a moment for every American when she first encounters the Declaration of Independence. For most, it comes to her as scripture — the highest and most sacred text in the nation’s civic religion ...

The United States is celebrating its 250th anniversary in 2026. It’s a major milestone for a country that was born in revolution against a king and comes at a moment when a protest movement against ...

On July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress adopted a document introducing a new nation to the world, composed of 13 “free and independent states.” This Declaration of Independence, read to crowds ...

David Armitage is the Lloyd C. Blankfein professor of history at Harvard University. Among his books to date is “The Declaration of Independence: A Global History.” His edition of the “Outlines of a ...