Farewell to Learning
The top right corner of the Declaration of Independence is missing from this Portsmouth newspaper.
Self-Evident Falsehood
In the Scots Magazine, “An Englishman” complained about two phrases that have become the most well-known and treasured parts of the Declaration
Confiscated
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
Royal Danish American
Daniel Thibou’s Gazette is the only known surviving newspaper printing of the Declaration of Independence in the Caribbean
World News
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
Virginia Gazette(s)
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
Freshest News
The American Gazette only lasted six weeks, but those weeks coincided with the Declaration of Independence