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 Declaration of Independence was the first formal statement by a nation’s people asserting their right to choose their own government. Even after the initial battles in the Revolutionary War broke ...

Part of a series of occasional features marking the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. It has been almost 250 years since John Dunlap’s Philadelphia print shop pulled an all-nighter ...

July Fourth marked 249 years since the 13 American colonies rejected a British monarch and embraced freedom. But as we enter the first days of our 250th year on this Earth, it feels like we’re moving ...

On July 2, 1776, the Second Continental Congress voted unanimously to declare independence from Great Britain.