VOORHEES, N.J., June 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Just 13 miles from Independence Hall, a South Jersey winery has uncovered one of the region's most remarkable untold connections to America's founding ...

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

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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.

Michael Auslin is a fellow at the Hoover Institution and author of “National Treasure: How the Declaration of Independence Made America,” from which this article was adapted. On the morning of May 6, ...