The Christian Science Monitor

When revolutionary news traveled at the speed of horseback

How did the American colonists separate fact from fiction? It wasn’t easy, explains Emily Sneff in “When the Declaration of ...

What the Declaration of Independence does – and doesn’t – say about God

On the Fourth of July 1776, the congressional delegates in Philadelphia adopted the Declaration of Independence, then ordered ...
Smithsonian Magazine

In 1776, the Declaration of Independence Was Breaking News. Here’s How the Founding Document Reached the American Public

A new book by historian Emily Sneff records the journeys of the Declaration's first printed copies, tracking their reception in the Thirteen Colonies and overseas ...