There’s no need to pull a Nicolas Cage this time. A rare printing of the Declaration of Independence will hit the auction block on January 24 at Sotheby’s. Known as the Essex Broadside, the document ...

A rare broadside copy of the Declaration of Independence is heading to auction at Sotheby’s, where it’s expected to fetch ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - Inside the south gallery of the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, the sound of history echoed once again. Yesterday, the University of Virginia hosted ...

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’s for ...

Many years ago a reader, Wallace Hooper, wrote to the Chronicle publisher with this request: “To celebrate this and every July Fourth, print the entire text of the Declaration of Independence.” In ...

The Declaration of Independence is the pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 4, 1776. The Declaration explained why the 13 colonies at ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - People in Charleston had the chance to hear the text of the Declaration of Independence read aloud for the first time in August 1776. The Second Continental Congress adopted ...

This copy of the Declaration was printed by Robert Luist Fowle of New Hampshire. Sotheby's A rare broadside copy of the Declaration of Independence is heading to auction at Sotheby’s, where it’s ...