Mary Say’s treatment of the Declaration would have shocked Mary Katharine Goddard

As the Declaration traveled from Philadelphia to New York to London to Belfast, John Dunlap’s name was left behind

The Declaration was evidence of one conflict among many in 1776

In Russia, independence was not part of the story

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

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