Created 1776, The United States Declaration of Independence is the pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 4, 1776.

This Fourth of July, the Capital Region will be honoring the past with public readings of the Declaration of Independence.

Sotheby’s Is Selling a Rare Printing of the Declaration of Independence A copy of the document known as the July 1776 Essex Broadside will go on the block later this month—one of just ten ...