As Baltimore's postmaster and printer to the Continental Congress, Mary Katharine Goddard produced the first official copy of ...
The Declaration of Independence, with its block of cursive letters scrawled onto parchment, looks like a relic from the ...
Next year, 2026, marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of the United States. The History Channel’s new docuseries “Thomas Jefferson” looks at one of America’s Founding Fathers and author of the ...
A Croome & Brightly engraving shows John Nixon reading the Declaration of Independence after its passage in Philadelphia.
"Trumbull took many liberties in the way that he organized this composition," said Dr. Michele Cohen, the curator for the ...
You might imagine the Declaration of Independence as a piece of parchment under glass, but in 1776, it was breaking news.
The Declaration of Independence’s 250th anniversary in 2026 is certain to be a time of national reflection. Americans tend to look to the Constitution to assess whether the nation is living up to its ...
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 74 reports on the challenges teachers face as the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence approaches, ...