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The Pennsylvania Evening Post was the first daily newspaper published in the United States, and was produced by Benjamin Towne from 1775 to 1783. It was also the first newspaper to report on the Lee Resolution [1] and to publish the United States Declaration of Independence. [2] [3] [4] [5]
The signed Declaration of Independence, now badly faded because of poor preservation practices during the 19th century, is on display at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. On July 4, 1776, Second Continental Congress President John Hancock's signature authenticated the Declaration of Independence.
Goddard Broadside of the Declaration of Independence, with "Printed by Mary Katharine Goddard" at bottom. When on January 18, 1777, the Second Continental Congress moved that the Declaration of Independence be widely distributed, Goddard was one of the first to offer the use of her press.
On July 4, 1776, a group of American founders pledged their lives, fortunes and sacred honor to found a new nation.
The Declaration of Independence was published by Congress, July 6, 1776, in the Philadelphia Evening Post, from which it was copied by most of the newspapers in the new nation; but some of them did not mention it until two weeks later, and even then found room for only a synopsis. When they were permitted to do so, they printed fairly full ...
This weekend, Americans will hold barbecues and parades to celebrate the signing of the Declaration of Independence, a document that's endured to this day as an icon of American freedom.
The Pennsylvania Evening Post was the first newspaper to publish the Declaration of Independence and the first daily newspaper to be established in the United States. [70] [71] In 1740, there were 16 newspapers, all published weekly, in British America.
The 1819 article about the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence was reprinted in many newspapers across the United States. [8] People immediately noticed that, even though the Mecklenburg Declaration was supposedly written more than a year before the 1776 United States Declaration of Independence, the two declarations had some very similar phrases, including "dissolve the political bands ...