The Recorder is featuring weekly series every Saturday over the next year on the founding of this nation leading up to the ...

The Declaration of Independence was not signed, however, until Aug. 2, 1776. Some of these signers were not a part of the original Congress who proposed and approved of the document in early ...

This copy of the Declaration sold at Christie’s four years ago for just $930,000. But when it hits the auction block on January 24, its price tag will likely be far higher.

This original copy of the Declaration of Independence, printed on the night of July 4, 1776, is on permanent display at the Dallas Public Library.(Ben Torres / Special Contributor) A sacred piece ...