The Daily News of Newburyport

Plenty to declare: Amesbury students film patriotic video for statewide challenge

Amesbury Middle School eighth-graders showed off their patriotic spirit Tuesday as they read and recorded an interpretation ...

The Spirit of the Declaration, Part 1

But if Jefferson and his colleagues on the Committee of Five avoided specifying what a national government should look like, ...
LA School Report

At 250, the Declaration of Independence Still Sparks Hard Questions in Class

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Tennessean

From grievances to government. What the Declaration set in motion

The Declaration of Independence, approved on July 4, 1776, dissolved the American colonies' political ties with Great Britain. It listed grievances against King George III, including quartering troops ...
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 ...
WCVB Channel 5 Boston

Statewide contest urges Massachusetts 8th-graders to perform Declaration of Independence creatively

STUDYING THEM, AND THEY COULD WIN A PRIZE. OUR TODD KAZAKIEWICHEPORTS. THIS IS ONE OF 25 MILLION COPIES OF THE FIRST PRINTING OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, THE MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY ...
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The declaration at 250. Why it still matters | Opinion

The Second Continental Congress approved the Declaration of Independence, effective July 4, 1776. The document dissolved the political ties that the American colonists had with Great Britain. The ...

This fragile document deserved a celebration. At 100, it got one.

Michael Auslin is the author of the forthcoming, on Tuesday, “National Treasure: How the Declaration of Independence Made ...