Nearly 250 years before the Declaration of Independence became one of the world’s most recognizable political documents, it was simply breaking news. According to the Harvard Gazette, on the night of ...

The copy, known as a Dunlap broadside, is one of 26 surviving first printings circulated on July 4, 1776, within hours of ratification.

On July 2, 1776, the Second Continental Congress voted unanimously to declare independence from Great Britain.

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Part of a series of occasional features marking the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. It has been almost 250 years since John Dunlap’s Philadelphia print shop pulled an all-nighter ...

During this 250th anniversary of independence, Americans are presented with a familiar narrative—one grounded more in national myth than historical reality. It goes something like this: the ...

Boston has *** new exhibit aimed at changing the way you think about one of the nation's most important documents. This was breaking news. This is Jay Michella, who is *** manager of rare books and ...

Speaker John Bidwell (center) surrounded by U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro and Whitney Library’s Emma Norden. Here we are three quarters of the way through our semiquincentennial year, and how many of us — ...

During this 250th anniversary of independence, Americans are presented with a familiar narrative—one grounded more in national myth than historical reality. It goes something like this: the ...