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In 1776, the Declaration of Independence was breaking news. Here's how the founding document reached the American public

In January 1777, Baltimore printer Mary Katharine Goddard published the first copies of the Declaration of Independence that ...
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What the Declaration of Independence Said and Meant

[This year, my annual post celebrating the Fourth of July is drawn from a chapter of Our Republican Constitution: Securing the Liberty and Sovereignty of We the People, and from a short essay on the ...