How the University of Iowa's Center for the Book played a major hand in protecting the United States' founding documents.

The tyrant, of course, was King George III, the target of the Declaration of Independence. We take it for granted now, but the declaration was an enormous political innovation — in it, the country ...

Bladen County recently welcomed a new display outside of the county courthouse that shows the nation's founding documents.

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See the difference between the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution.

The original Declaration of Independence is a permanent exhibit at the museum, but this weekend, they’re opening the vault ...