Thanks to Norman Lear, this Dunlap broadside went from hidden to hyper-visible

Peter Timothy was a busy man

This Dunlap broadside is one word shorter than the rest

In Russia, independence was not part of the story

To Kezia Coffin, the Declaration was “horrible”

Both of George Washington’s broadsides tell the same story—one of communication and inspiration

When readers opened their newspapers and read the Declaration, their eyes may have drifted to the graphic descriptions of people seeking freedom, yet left for dead

These Boston printers were thinking continentally

After the Declaration, Edward Eveleth Powars and Nathaniel Willis got to put their mark on the Chronicle

Copies of the Declaration that no longer survive still have stories to tell

On July 6, Benjamin Towne had the Declaration of Independence before any other newspaper printers were able to share the text with their readers

The people who purchased the British broadsides of the Declaration were probably more interested in celebrating Hancock than hanging him

The top right corner of the Declaration of Independence is missing from this Portsmouth newspaper.

In the Scots Magazine, “An Englishman” complained about two phrases that have become the most well-known and treasured parts of the Declaration

Perhaps after James Humphreys, Jr. printed the Declaration of Independence, he counted himself among the “numbers who had been obliged to hide themselves” and welcomed the “returning Liberty” of British rule

The Connecticut Courant reported both the Declaration of Independence and the baptism of Independence

Daniel Thibou’s Gazette is the only known surviving newspaper printing of the Declaration of Independence in the Caribbean

It took two months for the Declaration of Independence to travel from Philadelphia to Florence—a distance of more than 4,000 miles and a process that involved multiple translations

Alexander Purdie’s strategy of printing the last few paragraphs first meant that the Declaration of Independence appears in three different issues of two different Virginia Gazettes

Mary Katharine Goddard celebrated the Declaration of Independence as only a printer could