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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

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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

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Independence Baby

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

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Royal Danish American

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

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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

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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

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No Small Mirth

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

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Full Circle

Nearly 250 years after it was intercepted by the British, this Dunlap broadside is returning to Philadelphia

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In the Family

Among the papers in Hannah Dunster’s closet was her father’s copy of the Declaration of Independence

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Freshest News

The American Gazette only lasted six weeks, but those weeks coincided with the Declaration of Independence

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Eine Erklärung

From the beginning, the Declaration of Independence was a multilingual document

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