A Sarasota-based company has put a $2,500 "bounty" on a limited-edition quarter.

Listed simply as “another paper” in the Royal Navy inventory, the Declaration remained buried in British archives for 250 years.

Dana Bash and the National Archives’ Trevor Plante discuss the perilous journey the Declaration of Independence has taken and what goes in to protecting this priceless document, 250 years later.

Sunlight and abuse have taken a toll on the document, encased in bulletproof glass. But the Trump administration “hasn’t put much emphasis on it,” a former archivist notes.

Oakland County Circuit Judge Michael Warren explains why the Declaration of Independence makes the USA so unique in world history.

Michael Scurr, a volunteer at Britain’s National Archives, has discovered a rare early copy of the Declaration of Independence.

A volunteer cataloging naval letters came across a copy of the document, printed 250 years ago in New Hampshire. “It was a thrilling find,” he said.

A volunteer at the National Archives in London found the document among other papers seized from an American ship in 1776.

America is turning 250, and it all started with our founding document. How many facts about the Declaration of Independence do you know? This summer marks the 250th birthday of the United States, and we’ll soon be waving flags, watching parades and ...

But the Declaration kept moving. In Philadelphia, John Adams, 40, folded up “a Magazine, and an Evening Post” and sent the packet by express to Abigail Adams, 31, in Massachusetts. That mattered because the Evening Post had printed the Declaration the day before.