Smithsonian Magazine

In 1776, the Declaration of Independence Was Breaking News. Here’s How the Founding Document Reached the American Public

In January 1777, Baltimore printer Mary Katharine Goddard published the first copies of the Declaration of Independence that included the signers’ names. By then, the document was already old news.
The Winchester Star

American at 250: Remembering the final signer of the Declaration of Independence

John Hancock will forever be known as the first of 56 delegates to sign the Declaration of Independence, but Dr. Matthew ...

How the Declaration of Independence Captured American Hearts and Minds

That Abraham Lincoln, our most American of presidents, "never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the ...
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Read the Declaration of Independence

In June of 1776, the Continental Congress formed a five-person committee consisting of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman and Robert R. Livingston to draft a declaration of ...
The New Yorker

Was the Declaration of Independence Better Before the Edits?

Amid contention, criticism, and compromise, a divided nation had to present a unified front. It came at a cost.
Newsday

William Floyd, sole Long Islander to sign the Declaration of Independence, gets a day named after him

William Floyd has a parkway named after him. His statue welcomes drivers on that parkway as they enter the Mastic-Shirley area. And a school district bears the name of Long Island's only signer of the ...
Reason

Writings on the Declaration of Independence and the American Revolution

Over the years, I have written various posts and articles on the American Revolution and the ideals of the Declaration of Independence. Some have obvious continuing relevance to such issues as ...