Students at Nipmuc Regional High School in Upton recently had a rare opportunity to view two handwritten copies of the Declaration of Independence, a pairing that hasn’t occurred in nearly 250 years.

“The Declaration’s Journey” opens with a dramatic juxtaposition: A Windsor chair owned by Thomas Jefferson, principal author of the Declaration of Independence, faces the small, rusting steel bench on ...

There are many reasons one might come to love one’s country. It first appears in the connection to place, a bond to a physical ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: On this, the anniversary of our nation’s independence, we think it is important to publish these words that our forefathers inked 249 years ago in declaration of our fledgling nation’s ...

A commission, consisting of the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, and the Librarian of Congress, is empowered to restore the writing of the original manuscript ...

President Donald Trump asked “alarmed” aides for the original Declaration of Independence to be moved to the Oval Office, according to a report. The historic and treasured document is displayed at the ...

When Thomas Jefferson was chosen to draft the Declaration of Independence, he had an exceedingly difficult task ahead of him. The 33-year-old planter, who had left law practice just before Britain’s ...

There is confidence in the Declaration of Independence and the arguments made by the patriots in the years leading up to 1776. Leading loyalists or new Whigs warned of dreadful consequences that would ...

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